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 “Selected Writings on Race and Difference,” editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and diaspora.
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Our next CMRS Book Talk is right around the corner! We’re featuring “Mixed-Race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future,” by Dr. Jennifer Patrice Sims and our very own Chinelo L. Njaka. Join live and be part of the Q&A!
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The author of “Mixed/Other” on the duality of holding two truths simultaneously and the isolation of being mixed
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The trend personified by the Kardashians is driven by the aesthetics of ambiguity – and proximity to whiteness
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To her credit, the former actress, now duchess, has refused to buckle under pressure from the royal family, scurrilous British tabloids, the intensely bigoted right-wing American media and has made it clear that she intends to call things as she sees them and will not be bullied or cowed into submission or silence.
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The only surprise is how quickly this post-racial fantasy unraveled, culminating in Sunday’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, revealing the harrowing time Markle says she endured as a serving royal.
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In a pair of new memoirs — “Surviving the White Gaze,” by the American cultural critic Rebecca Carroll, and “Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong,” by the British journalist Georgina Lawton — two women recount growing up as Black girls with white parents who loved them deeply but…
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Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong Harper Perennial (an imprint of Harper Collins) 2021-02-23 304 pages 5x8in Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780063009486 E-book ISBN: 9780063009493 Audiobook ISBN: 9780063009509 Georgina Lawton Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were…
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“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of “Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,” the newest work by Black feminist theorist, literary critic, and historian Hazel Carby.