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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In this web exclusive, Joy Bivins, director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talks with Michelle Miller about the personal impact of someone of mixed race passing for White (or Black).
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Long before Charlottesville, ‘great replacement theory’ found its champion in a racist senator The Washington Post 2021-11-15 Martha Hamilton A 1939 photo of Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi. (Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress) Four years ago, torch-bearing “Unite the Right” demonstrators, including Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis, marched into Charlottesville, shouting, “Jews…
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London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s—as seen through the eyes of a former slave
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What To Know About the Novel Passing Before Watching the Netflix Movie TIME 2021-11-12 Cady Lang In Passing, the film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal 1929 novel of the same name, two women reckon with who they are and how they identify. Although both are Black, they are light-skinned enough that they can “pass” for…
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Commentary and Book Review: Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development Volume 34, Issue 1 (Spring 2021) pages 1-11 Jasmine Mitchell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Media Studies State University of New York, Old Westbury Can a drop of whiteness or “looking white” save someone from…
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Like all social constructs, race is real because we have made it so, and it seems immutable because we wish it to be. It’s no less powerful because humans invented it as a means of control. In fact, that may make it even more powerful. In the name of this deeply silly idea, my people…
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Paula [Patton] knows what it’s like to be misunderstood. Growing up in L.A., the daughter of a white teacher and an African-American defense attorney, it wasn’t easy to fit in. “People judged me because I was light-skinned. [They’d assume] I didn’t want to be part of the black race,” she says. In fact, Paula, who…
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In Rebecca Hall’s film, Nella Larsen’s story comes to life in black and white.
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In the annals of the Supreme Court, the Plessy v. Ferguson case has little competition for the title of Worst Decision in History.Now, 125 years after the shameful decision that codified the Jim Crow-era “separate but equal” fiction, the namesake of that famous case, Homer Plessy, may be pardoned.