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: Articles
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Ruth Negga has given the subject of identity a lot of thought.
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‘Passing’ — the original 1929 novel — is disturbingly brilliant Book Reviews National Public Radio 2021-11-10 Carole V. Bell The one thing most people know about Nella Larsen’s Passing is that it explores a peculiar kind of deception — being born into one marginalized racial category and slipping into another, for privilege, security, or power.…
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The only woman in the National Baseball Hall of Fame had a fascinating — and confusing — past
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Negga’s provocative and strong-willed character in Rebecca Hall’s film highlights the actress’ singular talent.
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The Carrie Bourassa story is yet another example of a kind of cultural Munchausen Syndrome The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2021-11-09 Drew Hayden Taylor Carrie Bourassa, a University of Saskatchewan professor, told the world her ancestry was Métis, Anishnawbe and Tlingit. But she has been unable to verify her ancestry following reports questioning those…
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Tessa Thompson Delves Into the Subtext of ‘Passing’: ‘None of Us Fit Too Squarely in Boxes’ Variety 2021-11-05 Angelique Jackson, Reporter Ryan Pfluger / AUGUST In “Passing,” Tessa Thompson stars as Irene Redfield, a Black woman living in Harlem amid the Renaissance, whose life with her doctor husband Brian (André Holland) and their two sons…
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23andMe wants to sell you vacations based on your DNA. But what are they really basing that on?