Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Crossed lines The University of Chicago Magazine May-June 2015 Lydiayle Gibson Allyson Hobbs, AM’02, PhD’09. (Photography by Jennifer Pottheiser) A secret in her own family led Allyson Hobbs, AM’02, PhD’09, to uncover the hidden history of racial passing. “You know, we have that in our own family too.” That was the bombshell, the offhand remark…