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: Harlem Renaissance
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The pic, shot it black and white, tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York.
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Research and writing a biography of Fredi Washington (1903-1994), a civil rights activist and a performing artist active in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Nella Larsen’s Etiquette Lesson: Small Talk, Racial Passing, and the Novel of Manners Novel: A Forum on Fiction Volume 51, Issue 1 (2018-05-01) pages 1-16 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-4357365 Matthew Krumholtz Department of English Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey This essay explores how novelists of the Harlem Renaissance deploy small talk to disrupt racial identification. Nella Larsen’s…
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Creative Producer, Passing by Indigo Griffiths Arts Jobs Arts Council England March 2018 Closes: 2018-03-26 Location: London, England Type: Part-Time Salary: Paid (£10k-15k pro rata) Artform: Theater Contact: Gemma Aked-Priestley and Indigo Griffiths Description Chicago. 1941. Joey, John and Eliza are siblings but their lives are about to take different paths. Joey is embracing the…
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The painter’s struggle at the crossroads of artistic expression and social progress
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I trace Martin’s iconography and ritual performances across Black communities in Latin and Anglo America to reveal the historical relations of power that structure and materialize the networks harnessed by Black peoples to mobilize resources in their varied yet persistent efforts to create meaningful lives out of the fragments of the Middle Passage.
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Among the events that helped to crystallize what would come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance was a dinner, in March, 1924, at the Civic Club, on West 12th Street. The idea for the dinner was initially hatched by Charles Spurgeon Johnson, the editor of Opportunity, a journal published by the National Urban League…
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Here, There, and In Between: Travel as Metaphor in Mixed Race Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2014-05-09 Colin Enriquez English Department Created to comment on Antebellum and Reconstruction literature, the tragic mulatto concept is habitually applied to eras beyond the 19th century. The tragic mulatto has become an end rather than…
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Uptown Girls Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2013-09-22 Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History Princeton University Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, by Carla Kaplan Illustrated. 505 pp. Harper. Time hasn’t been kind to the white women who participated in the Harlem Renaissance. As philanthropists and activists, authors…