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: Vivek Bald
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Black and Bengali In These Times 2013-03-02 Fatima Shaik A new book traces the hidden story of a mixed-race community. The federal census taker comes every 10 years and, for most people in the United States, this has little consequence. But not where I lived, in New Orleans, just outside the historic district of Tremé.…
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MIT Scholar Vivek Bald uncovers forgotten history of South Asian immigrants’ New York City arrival New York Daily News 2013-01-17 Erica Pearson New book chronicles little-known story of Muslims from what’s now Pakistan and Bangladesh, who built a multiracial community in Harlem decades before they were legally allowed to immigrate to the U.S. Virtually all…
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Bengali Harlem: Author documents a lost history of immigration in America In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2013-02-15 Editor’s note: CNN’s Moni Basu, a Bengali immigrant, was born in Kolkata, India. Moni Basu (CNN) – In the next few weeks, Fatima Shaik, an African-American, Christian woman, will travel “home”…
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Bengali Harlem The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC 93.9 FM/ 820 AM 2013-01-11 Brian Lehrer, Host Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vivek Bald, documentary director and assistant professor of writing and digital media at MIT and the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian…
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Where Ethnicity Was Fluid The New York Times 2012-12-29 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent In “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America” (Harvard University Press, $35), Vivek Bald, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration:…