Ralina Joseph and Critical Mixed-Race Studies

We featured our previous interview with Dr. Ralina Joseph this week.  Her new book, From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial, offers a strong critique of the standard “tragic mulatto/a” approach to the discussion of “multiracial” people and the anti-Black core of much of the “multiracial [political/social/academic] movement.”

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In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future

In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future* *Originally published in the March 2011 issue of BLAC Detroit magazine. What are you? I have been asked this question for so long, some might think I should be over it. I’m not. Not because I…

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