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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Day: July 19, 2016
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Commodification of the Black Body, Sexual Objectification and Social Hierarchies during Slavery The Earlham Historical Journal: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Inquiry Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana Volume VII: Issue II (Spring 2015) pages 21-43 Iman Cooper The horror of the institution of slavery during the late eighteenth century was not that it displaced millions of…
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Indian, African-Guyanese numbers continue to decline, census finds Stabroek News Georgetown, Guyana 2016-07-19 Staff Writer – mixed race, Amerindian populations still growing Although the country’s two largest ethnic groups, East Indian and African-Guyanese, continued to decline in their numbers between 2002 and 2012, the drop was offset by continued growth in the mixed race and…
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Crucifying the White Savior (Film) Shadow and Act 2016-06-29 Andre Seewood We no longer have to forgive them, for they know exactly what they are doing. The new film by Gary Ross, “The Free State of Jones” is uncontestably a White savior film. Laid bare, “The Free State of Jones” is a simplistically constructed tale…
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“Daddy, I wish there weren’t any Black people.” Medium 2016-05-05 Abe Lateiner Taking a deep breath, I respond to my daughter with a wish of my own. I’ve begun to see that it’s not about having the “right” answers when kids ask about race. Don’t get me wrong: I think there are better and worse…
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FACING FORWARD: A Panel Discussion on Mixed-Race/Ethnic Japanese Americans and Community Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago 4427 N. Clark Street Chicago, Illinois 60640 2016-07-19, 18:30-20:00 CDT (Local Time) The Japanese American Service Committee Legacy Center Presents A “Memories of Now” Seminar Series Presentation Co-sponsored by the Chicago Japanese American Historical Society (CJAHS) and the…
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As a kindergartner, [Dorothy] Roberts recalls, she embraced her parents’ philosophy. “I remember being proud that I had parents of different races and that was an important part of my identity. But by the time I was in seventh grade, I identified as black and was much more interested in liberation for black people than…
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For a long time, I gave white people the benefit of the doubt. I told myself that they didn’t know what they were doing. They were ignorant. If only we explained it to them, helped them relate, then they’d understand. Over the past three years I’ve seen explanation after explanation and still people deny racism.…