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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“Miyazaki tells us something about bodies in flux: There is no easy answer; only the conflict, the question.”
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Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.
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Adrian Piper as African American Artist American Art Volume 20, Number 3 (Fall 2006) DOI: 10.1086/511097 John P. Bowles, Associate Professor of African American Art History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill African‐American artist Adrian Piper has repeatedly staged her own racial transformation in order to unsettle the racist attitudes of her artworks’ American…
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Learning your history is forced reckoning, asking you to consider whose stories you carry with you and which ones you want to carry forward.
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Nella Larsen’s Etiquette Lesson: Small Talk, Racial Passing, and the Novel of Manners Novel: A Forum on Fiction Volume 51, Issue 1 (2018-05-01) pages 1-16 DOI: 10.1215/00295132-4357365 Matthew Krumholtz Department of English Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey This essay explores how novelists of the Harlem Renaissance deploy small talk to disrupt racial identification. Nella Larsen’s…
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All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mulattoes, Mongolians or Malays hereafter contracted in the state of Wyoming are and shall be illegal and void.
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Harris, 54, now a U.S. senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, would be several firsts in the White House: the first woman, the first African American woman, the first Indian American and the first Asian American. The daughter of two immigrants — her father came from Jamaica — she would also be the second biracial…
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In an age of ubiquitous direct-to-consumer genetic testing, family secrets are almost impossible to keep.
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Photographer chronicles biracial Koreans living as strangers in homeland
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Jhené Aiko is a part of a small but seemingly growing cohort of multiracial and multicultural performers who are embedded in African American and Latinx communities yet subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, remind audiences through their music, performance, and public personas that they are “different” and thus unique. In the hyper-competitive music industry, being…