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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Eartha Kitt’s daughter reveals what her mother taught her about race TODAY 2021-04-23 Kitt Shapiro, daughter of the iconic actress and singer Eartha Kitt, discusses her mother’s experience with racism, recounting watching her being turned away at a “whites only” amusement park in South Africa. Shapiro says that as she’s gotten older, she has more…
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Schoolmates never pulled their eyes sideways at me, but one did ask if my mom was my nanny and tried to convince me I was adopted.
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Rachel Dolezal 1 year later: ‘I don’t have any regrets about how I identify’ The Today Show 2016-04-12 Eun Kyung Kim Rachel Dolezal said she remains puzzled about why people have questioned her racial identity but is “ready to move on” from the controversy that made her a household name last spring. “I don’t have…
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Cheerios revisits mixed-race family for Super Bowl spot Today 2014-01-29 Ben Popken, Senior Staff Writer/Editor For its first ever Super Bowl ad, Cheerios is telling racists to “stick a spoon in it.” General Mills is portraying in its big game spot the same mixed-race family that drew so many hateful remarks on YouTube last May…