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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Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s…
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Escaping slavery, one family’s story Free Press Newspapers Illinois 2016-12-14 Sandy Vasko, Executive Director Will County Historical Society Black history in Braidwood starts during the coal strikes of the 1870s. Before that time the only black people this area knew were passing through on the Underground Railroad. Or did they? As I have learned, not…
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Mixed marriages, stubborn racial bias: Discrimination persists for the nonwhite The New York Daily News 2016-12-09 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Mildred and Richard Loving (Associated Press) “I ’m pregnant.” Those are the first two words uttered in the recently released film “Loving.” The poignant opening prompts viewers to consider the most contested…
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On the Record: Georgetown and the racial identity of President Patrick Healy The Georgetown Voice 2010-04-14 Patrick Healy Matt Sheptuck (COL ’10) is an American Studies major writing his senior thesis, which explores how Georgetown University has perceived Jesuit Father Patrick Healy’s racial identity over the years. In his research Sheptuck found that Healy, whom…
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I worried that it was possible for the symbolic and inspirational aspects of having a black president more than offset by the damages that could be done by the messages delivered by a black president. And it has been damaging to have Barack Obama, a black man speaking from the authoritative platform of the presidency,…
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Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History Duke University Press 2016 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-6248-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-6263-0 Stuart Hall (1932–2014) Edited by: Jennifer Daryl Slack, Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies Michigan Technological University Lawrence Grossberg, Morris David Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The publication of Cultural Studies…
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Three movies this year show Virginia’s racial history. In short, it’s complicated. The Washington Post 2016-12-22 Stephanie Merry, Reporter Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in the movie “Loving.” (Ben Rothstein/Focus Features) “Loving” shows Virginia at its most romantic and picturesque. Toward the beginning of the drama, a man takes his…