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 Wilson Quarterly
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Eyes Wide Cut: The American Origins of Korea’s Plastic Surgery Craze The Wilson Quarterly Fall 2015 Laura Kurek South Korea’s obsession with cosmetic surgery can be traced back to an American doctor, raising uneasy questions about beauty standards. At sixteen stories high, the doctor’s office looms over the neon-colored metropolis. Within the high-rise, consultation offices,…
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Beauty pageants, blackface, and bigotry: Japan’s problems with racism The Wilson Quarterly Washington, D.C. 2015-07-23 Maya Wesby Photograph via Twitter Bearing a false belief of racial singularity and superiority, can Japanese culture ever embrace diversity in an ever-intertwining world? In most developed nations, issues of race occupy headlines and are components, unstated or overt, of…