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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What Matters to Me & Why – Allyson Hobbs Stanford University Common Room Center for Inter-Religious Community Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE) at Old Union, 3rd Floor Stanford, California Wednesday, 2016-02-17, 12:00 PST (Local Time) Allyson Hobbs Sponsored by: Office for Religious Life The purpose of What Matters to Me and Why is to encourage reflection…
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On ‘Jackson Five Nostrils,’ Creole vs. ‘Negro’ and Beefing Over Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ ColorLines 2016-02-08 Yaba Blay, Dan Blue Endowed Chair & Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina As you know, the video for Beyoncé Knowles’ “Formation” does the most, from invoking police violence, to flashing back to Hurricane…
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Race, Interracial Families, and Political Advertising in the Obama Era: Experimental Evidence Political Communication Published online: 2016-01-20 DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2015.1106625 Ethan Porter Department of Political Science University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Thomas J. Wood, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio State University Across two studies of race and interracial families in political advertising, this article finds…
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Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86 The New York Times 2016-01-29 Jack Anderson Yvonne Chouteau, one of the five celebrated Oklahoma ballerinas with an American Indian background, in a 1963 photo. Credit Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Yvonne Chouteau, a former principal dancer of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo who emerged as one of…
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Meet the New Student Activists The New York Times 2016-02-01 As told to Abby Ellin Young African-Americans and their allies are demanding change, leading people of all backgrounds to talk about issues that have lain dormant for decades. What do they want? Inclusion and representation — now. Here, seven students talk about the problems, the…
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Review ‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ follows Misty Copeland’s incredible rise in the ballet world The Los Angeles Times 2016-02-08 Mary McNamara, Contact Reporter Misty Copeland in the documentary “A Ballerina’s Tale.” (Oskar Landi / Sundance Selects) If you think #OscarsSoWhite, consider the world of elite ballet. And if you want to understand why the current conversation…
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A Ballerina’s Tale By Nelson George | in Dance Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Premieres 2016-02-08 Few dancers reach the highest levels of classical ballet; of that few only a fraction are black women. Against the odds, Misty Copeland has made history by becoming the first African American principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet…
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The mulatta concubine in diaspora is everywhere. She is in representations of Thomas Jefferson’s long-term “relationship” with the enslaved Sally Hemings, begun when she was fourteen and he forty-four (see Gordon-Reed, American Controversy). She is the protagonist who emblemizes Cuban national identity in Cirilo Villaverde’s 1882 novel, Cecilia Valdes: Novela de costumbres cubanas.