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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Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism
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LAWRENCE – More than one white politician has landed in hot water this year after old photographs of them dressed in blackface surfaced. Clearly, racial stereotypes are still a touchy subject. So is it OK for minorities to dress in whiteface? What if it’s meant to represent an inner conflict among people of mixed-race identity?
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Witty, fearless and “woke as f***,” Posley describes (and often reenacts) parts of his lived experience as a biracial man in search of an identity. Feeling too black for white people and not black enough for black people, he regales us with anecdotes that, although amusing in their own right, are also the kind of…
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Plainly speaking, a “yaller girl” was a mulatto, a person of mixed-race conceived through some combination of black and white parentage.1 The four examples used above don’t go into too much detail. It was, for the time, a very understood phrase.
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This dissertation mines the intersection of racial performance and the history of the so-called “tragic mulatto” figure in American fiction. I propose that while many white writers depicted the “mulatto” character as inherently flawed because of some tainted “black blood,” many black writers’ depictions of mixed-race characters imagine solutions to the race problem.
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Rhiannon Giddens Is Reclaiming the Black Heritage of American Folk Music TIME 2019-02-21 John Lingan Shahar Azran—WireImage/Getty Images In early 2018, folk-music torchbearer Rhiannon Giddens decamped to Breaux Bridge, La., with minstrelsy on her mind. In her early work with the Grammy-winning bluegrass band the Carolina Chocolate Drops and across two solo albums and a…
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The term “miscegenation” was coined in an 1864 pamphlet by an anonymous author.
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The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection University of Virginia Press May 2015 224 pages 6×9 inches Cloth ISBN: 9780813937014 Paper ISBN: 9780813937021 Ebook ISBN: 9780813937038 Jinny Huh, Associate Professor of English University of Vermont In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny…
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With special guest, Steven F. Riley, founder of MixedRaceStudies.org! Also, Neneh Cherry on being mixed race in the music industry, controversial new Netflix Show ‘Always a Witch’, Viola Davis and the Liam Neeson controversy, Queen Ifrica on colourism, “Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America” by IbI Zoboi, Grace Wales Bonner, plus…
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Award-winning author of “Small Island” and “The Long Song” had cancer
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Andrea Levy, who has died of cancer at the age of 62, told the stories of the Windrush generation with humour and compassion.