Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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Theatre Review: ‘An Octoroon’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Maryland Theatre Guide 2016-06-05 Jennifer Minich We need to talk about An Octoroon: a razor-sharp, thought-provoking, radical, comical blast from the past. Playwright and DC native (bonus points) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to Woolly Mammoth for the DC premiere of An Octoroon, an adaption of the 1859…
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Editorial Observer; Back When Skin Color Was Destiny — Unless You Passed for White The New York Times 2003-09-07 Brent Staples The New Yorker was trying not to speak ill of the dead when it described Anatole Broyard as the ”famously prickly critic for the Times, a man who demanded so much from books that…
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Racial identity: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Anatole Broyard The Globe and Mail 1999-11-23 Robert Fulford For many years, Anatole Broyard of The New York Times was a dashing figure in literary New York, a critic of exceptional charm and wit. He was said to be one of those people who talk spontaneously in well-shaped…
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A Confederate Dissident, in a Film With Footnotes The New York Times 2016-06-15 Jennifer Schuessler The forthcoming Matthew McConaughey drama “Free State of Jones” lays claim to being the first Hollywood film in decades to depict Reconstruction, the still controversial post-Civil War period that attempted to rebuild the South along racially egalitarian lines. But the…
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Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century exhibition, HOME, reviewed by Şima İmşir Parker The Manchester Review Manchester, England May 2016 Şima İmşir Parker, Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Manchester Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century, Home, 30 April 2016 – 3 July 2016 “The melodramatic body is…
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My thesis examines the similar intersections of hybridity that are embodied in both representations of monstrosity and the politics surrounding people of mixed-race.
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Loving Day 2016 Hapa Happy Hour 2016-06-11 Tune in with Lisa and Hiwa as they discover technology and talk about race, Loving Day, films, and politics! And feel free to contact us through hapahappyhour@gmail.com. Happy Loving Day! Listen to the podcast here. Download the podcast here.
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For anyone interested in foreign films, one of the most interesting periods of German filmmaking was the post war period between 1946 to the mid 1960’s. In effect, only two types of films were being made: pure escapist film such as musicals and comedies that were designed to make the audience completely forget the ugly…
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Nothing is black and white in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘An Octoroon’ The Washington Post 2016-06-06 Peter Marks, Theater critic Jon Hudson Odom, left, as George, Maggie Wilder, center, as Dora and Kathyrn Tkel as Zoe in “An Octoroon.” (Scott Suchman) “Hi, everyone, I’m a black playwright!” the actor Jon Hudson Odom exclaims at the outset of…