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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On Becoming Black, Becoming White and Being Human: Rachel Dolezal and the Fluidity of Race Truthdig 2015-06-18 Channing G. Joseph Library of Congress For decades, no one knew my cousin Ernest Torregano was black. At least, no one who mattered in his new life. Not the clients or associates of the prominent bankruptcy law firm…
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Mixed Race Beauty Gets a Mainstream Makeover TruthDig 2011-03-07 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Are mixed race faces considered the most beautiful? A recent report from Allure magazine says yes. Results of a survey conducted by Allure reveal that 64 percent of its readers thought mixed race was the most attractive. The editors…