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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Artificial snow falls gently from the top of the stage of the Boston Opera House, encasing the space in an ethereal glittering glow. Beneath it dances Chyrstyn Fentroy as the Snow Queen, entwined in an elegant flow of limbs and carefully choreographed steps with the Snow King.
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I’m raising my sons to be proud of their blackness, writes John Vercher. But they’ll benefit from their lighter skin.
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The only people who qualify as non-racist are those who defy and denounce the false logic of race altogether. Carlos Hoyt, “Mean, Kind Or Non: Which Type Of Racist Are You?” Cognoscenti, WBUR 90.9 FM, December 15, 2016. http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/12/15/race-and-racism-carlos-hoyt.
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In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity Here & Now WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts 2016-08-03 Sil Lai Abrams, author of “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” (Courtesy of Che Williams) When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark…