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: Zebulon Miletsky
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Here to help us understand Juneteenth’s history is Zebulon Miletsky, an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at Stony Brook University.
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Born in Berkeley, California, to a white Jewish father with family in Elmont, Long Island, and a black Episcopalian mother with deep roots in Boston, where the family would settle when Zebulon was 3, Miletsky’s blended heritage and a pale complexion that sometimes gets him mistaken as white has informed each move of his life.…
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Stony Brook professor’s biracial heritage has lessons for life, classroom Newsday 2020-02-26 Joe Dziemianowicz, Special to Newsday Stony Brook University Assistant Professor Zebulon Miletsky holds a photo of his parents, Marc and Veronica Miletsky. Miletsky draws on his own biracial past to delve into conversations about race in America. Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara A week and a half ago,…
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“He’s gonna have a hard time proving he’s a brother.” According to my mother, these are the first words I ever heard in my life. And they were spoken by the pediatrician who delivered me at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, California. Dr. Boynton was her name. “He’s gonna have a hard time proving he’s…
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The Dilemma of Interracial Marriage: The Boston NAACP and the National Equal Rights League, 1912–1927 Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2016 Zebulon Miletsky, Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York On a wintry evening on February 1, 1843, a group of Boston’s African American citizens gathered…