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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Larsen’s 1929 novel, now a Netflix film, illustrates the degree to which race is a construct – without lecturing the reader.
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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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The Passing Trailer Highlights That Race Is A Delusion Refinery29 2021-09-24 Nylah Burton Photo: Courtesy of Netflix. “Race is a delusion,” my friend sighed. We had been discussing passing, the act of someone from one race being accepted or perceived as a member of another, usually a marginalized race to white. After numerous anecdotes about…
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The pervasive media and public interest in the Dolezal story confirms the ongoing fascination with racial passing within and beyond the United States, a popular interest that has its counterpart in the proliferation of academic studies of the subject that have been published in the past twenty years. The scholarly attention paid to racial passing…
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Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel continues the author’s exploration of the suffocating strictures of the color line.
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Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.
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In The Problem of the Prism, I argue that activist writers challenged the normalizing of white supremacy and imagined black futurity within the intersections of racial visibility, nation, and culture by transforming and repurposing racist and colorist ideologies. Through a wide range of cultural materials, I recuperate overlooked discourses on race and color by broadening…
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This qualitative interview study investigated the types of parental racial-ethnic socialization messages received by Multiracial American youth over the course of their development.
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Race Off: The fantasy of race transformation The Yale Review 2021-09-27 Namwali Serpell, Professor of English Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Genevieve Gaignard, People Make the World Go Round, 2019. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer. Courtesy the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles. This essay was first delivered in September 2021 as the Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale University’s Whitney…