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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Tag: The Voice
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Focus on world’s first black football star The Voice 2016-10-16 Poppy Brady Dr Tony Talburt decided that a book on Guyanese-born footballer Watson was seriously overdue, so he set about researching the background of this exceptional pioneer of the beautiful game HE WAS the world’s first black football superstar, but the name Andrew Watson is…
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Mixed race author on the struggle of having to ‘pick a side’ The Voice 2016-06-05 Davina Hamilton, Entertainment Editor LIFETIME OF LOVE: Gus and sister Chi-chi with their parents Michael and Margaret Author Gus Nwanokwu on growing up with a Nigerian father and Irish mother in 1960s Britain THE PRESSURE to ‘pick a side’, the…
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Marvin Rees Becomes UK’s First Elected Black Mayor The Voice 2016-05-14 Marc Wadsworth ‘I’m the descendant of Jamaican slaves. Now I’m mayor of Bristol,’ Rees tells The Voice BRISTOL’S NEW mayor has not only changed the face of the city after winning a huge victory but is also promising a new and inclusive way of…
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‘Our schools are failing mixed raced children’ The Voice London, England, United Kingdom 2016-04-02 Dinah Moreley Stereotypical expectations that this group have ‘confused identities’ often mean they experience racism from teachers and fellow pupils A REPORT by People in Harmony, (PIH) the national charity for mixed race people and families has highlighted the experience of…