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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Author: Steven
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Early in your career you were working on a TV show and pitched an episode about a white family trying to adopt a Black child, and it was rejected. Why did you never pursue adoption as subject matter again? That was my third show on television. I had written the script and loved it. It…
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In a nod to his incisive work, artist Genevieve Gaignard presents a new exhibition, “This is America: The Unsettling Contradictions in American Identity,” at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center from Feb. 12 – May 15. It’s the first solo exhibition of the multidisciplinary artist’s photography and installation work, through which she unravels the ongoing issues…
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A Daughter’s Quest: On Anne Liu Kellor’s “Heart Radical” Los Angeles Review of Books 2021-11-12 Amy Reardon Anne Liu Kellor, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging (Berkeley, California: She Writes Press, 2021) GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN in Seattle, Anne Liu Kellor struggled to understand the ache she carried inside. Her debut memoir,…
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White supremacy will always attract nonwhite believers.
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The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children
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Marie Therese Coincoin was born into slavery in French Colonial Louisiana then gained her own freedom and the freedom of many of her children.
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There is a gloriously unaffected vibe about Gina Prince-Bythewood. Cerebral and sublime, casually beautiful and laser-focused, she has written and directed impressive television and film for the past twenty-plus years with equal parts rigor and joy. And she has achieved all this without losing her sense of self as a Black woman in America, and…
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The history of Afro Latinos is not taught in American schools, and the idea that someone can be Black and Latino still feels novel to some people, according to Tanya K. Hernández, a professor at Fordham University School of Law. Blanca Torres, “‘We Are Black. We Just Speak Spanish’: Why Some Afro Latinos Want More…
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Kyla Kupferstein describes how her yiddishkeyt was sparked by her Buba and Zayda in the Bronx and what her Jewish journey has been like since then.
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This debut novel is a surefooted, art-filled and wholly 21st-century take on bloodsucking