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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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell (Born 1921): Teaching America that black was beautiful. The Lives They Lived The New York Times Magazine 2014-12-25 Touré DeVore-Mitchell during her modeling days. Photograph by Rupert Callender from the DeVore family archive One day in 1946, a black woman showed up at the Vogue School of Modeling in New York, seeking to…
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, 92, Dies; Redefined Beauty The New York Times 2014-03-13 Margalit Fox Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell Credit MARBL/Emory University, via Associated Press Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, a former model, agent, charm-school director and newspaper publisher who almost single-handedly opened the modeling profession to African-Americans, and in so doing expanded public understanding of what American beauty looks like, died…