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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The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945 Harvard University Press February 2011 272 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674057012 George Bornstein, C. A. Patrides Professor of Literature, Emeritus University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years…
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Summer in the Global Village: Trevor Noah, South Africa’s Comic Phenomenon The World Public Radio International 2013-07-16 Mirissa Neff In South Africa, comedian Trevor Noah is a phenomenon. A friend who recently came back from Johannesburg and Cape Town, remarked that the 28-year-old’s every utterance, whether on TV or Twitter (where he has nearly a…
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Blackness/Mixedness: Contestations over Crossing Signs Cultural Critique Number 54 (Spring, 2003) pages 178-212 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University While studies of cultural syncretism, transnationalism, and “hybridity” have lately become all the rage, there is one area in which claims of racially “hybrid” identity are still subtly resisted,…
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‘White House Down’ and Black Presidents on Screen The New York Times 2013-06-26 Mekado Murphy At one point in the action thriller “White House Down,” which opens June 28, the president of the United States, played by Jamie Foxx, is trying to thwart a paramilitary group that has overtaken the White House. After swapping his…
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Naked Bodies, Bodies of History Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged 2013-06-27 Jenny Lee “She mimics the speaking. That might resemble speech. (Anything at all.) Bared noise, groan, bits torn from words…From the back of her neck she releases her shoulders free. She swallows once more.” So begins the story of the halting diseuse, or female…
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‘One Drop of Love’ (Theatre Review) The Chic of Domesticity: A Woman-to-Women Conversation on All Facets of Life – Fashion – Politics – Religion – Style – Travel 2013-06-29 Jennifer Vaughn-Estrada Plans free for tomorrow evening? I recommend catching the final performance of One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval…
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Some Thoughts on Biracialism and Poetry Boston Review 2013-06-13 Paisley Rekdal, Associate Professor of English University of Utah To be a biracial and female writer might suggest one of two things: first, that my gender and race are the subject matter of my work or, second, that the forms of my writing reflect my identity.…
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What’s it like to “come out” as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all! The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives 2013-06-20 The Displaced Nation Team As reported here last month, Elizabeth Liang spent the month of May performing, at a venue in Los Angeles, a one-woman show about being a…
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Writing Mixed Race Asian Americans into the Nation: Narratives of National Incorporation in the Bildungsroman and the Multiracial Movement Wesleyan University May 2013 80 pages May Lee Watase A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in American…