Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Johnny Otis Felt He Had Been ‘Saved’ by the Political, Spiritual, and Moral Force of African-American Culture
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By Repackaging the Myths of the Tragic Octoroon and the Self-Made Woman, Lulu White Crafted a Persona That Haunts Beyoncé’s “Formation”
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How Soccer Helped Brazil Embrace Its Racial Diversity Zócalo Public Square KCRW Santa Monica, California 2016-04-06 Joshua Nadel, Associate Professor of History North Carolina Central University Brazil—as two recent book titles point out, and almost any kid kicking a ball anywhere in the world can tell you—is the country of soccer. While the modern sport’s…
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They Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid Zócalo Public Square 2015-11-19 Maya Soetoro-Ng (Photo by Kenna Reed) Peace Educator Maya Soetoro-Ng Wants America to Make Room for Complexity Maya Soetoro-Ng is the director of community outreach and global learning for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii…
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Unlike the continental United States, Hawaii has no group that is the racial majority, and people can identify with multiple races and ethnicities over several generations. This is the norm, rather than an anomaly. Early social scientists, the tourist industry, and visitors credit this long history of mixing to the “aloha spirit,” or culture of…