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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Meghan Markle, colorism and the archetype of the ‘tragic mulatto’ The Washington Post 2022-09-04 Karen Attiah, Columnist Meghan Markle in New York on Sept. 23. (Seth Wenig/AP) Aug. 31 marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris in 1997. Also killed were her Egyptian lover, Dodi Al…
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When Walter White joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s New York staff in 1918, he had a thin record of civil rights activism. But he quickly made himself into the association’s indispensable man, particularly skilled at communicating the terror of racial violence to White audiences.
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More recently the concept of frontier has given way to the idea of borders and borderlands, where peoples and cultures have intermingled and interacted. In “Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West,” Anne F. Hyde examines family life in the borderlands; her carefully wrought portrait of five families…
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Their interracial romance ended painfully after college. They reunited 42 years later — and now live together. The Washington Post 2021-10-04 Sydney Page, Freelance Reporter Steve Watts and Jeanne Gustavson, while they were dating in secret in the 1970s. The couple met in college at a German Club meeting, when Gustavson was a freshman and…
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I thought I was White until I learned my mother’s secret. The census helped me tell my family story.
I thought I was White until I learned my mother’s secret. The census helped me tell my family story. The Washington Post 2021-10-13 Gail Lukasik Gail Lukasik’s mother, Alvera Frederic Kalina, in New Orleans circa 1942. Kalina was born into a Black family in New Orleans but spent her life passing as White. (Family photo)…
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The initial move across the country to change the formula was initially sparked about five years ago by medical students who raised questions about using race in medical tests and the influence it can have on a patient’s treatment. Paul Palevsky, president of the National Kidney Foundation, said the inclusion of race sends a “wrong…
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The University of Maryland Medical System and the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced Wednesday that they will stop using the race-based diagnostic equation to estimate kidney function.