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Mermaids, Mixedness, and Mixed Race Studies with Dr. Brittany Wiley
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About This Episode
Dr. Brittany Wiley has been teaching since before she had a classroom, assigning herself summer book reports and turning her siblings into students. Today she teaches ethnic studies at Cuesta College, and in this episode she and Dr. Shawna Gann talk about how identity, history, and teaching intersect.
Dr. Wiley walks through the history that shaped mixed identity in the United States, from the hereditary slavery laws of the 1660s to the literature of racial passing to census data showing mixed race as the fastest growing category. She shares a moment from a…
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