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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EXCLUSIVE: Ruth Negga on How Feeling Alien Inspired Her Oscar-Worthy Performance and the Power of ‘Loving’ Entertainment Tonight 2016-11-06 John Boone Photo: Getty Images Ruth Negga may go from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to the Academy Awards, which is no easy feat even for a Marvel superhero. The 34-year-old actress may be most recognizable for her…
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Mark Loving on the film ‘Loving’ and a Supreme Court case that changed the nation Eastern Mennonite University Harrisonburg, Virginia 2016-11-03 Lauren Jefferson, Editor-in-Chief Mark Loving, a sophomore at Eastern Mennonite University, shows a photo of his great-grandparents, Mildred and Richard Loving. In 1967, the couple won a Supreme Court case that eventually led to…
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50 years ago: Tucson couple broke down barriers to interracial marriage Arizona Capital Times 2009-11-01 Luige del Puerto Henry Oyama was beaming as he led his new bride from the altar of St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson 50 years ago. She was wearing a traditional white wedding dress, and her left hand was grasping the…
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The White and Black Worlds of Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-11-04 Arica L. Coleman AP Photo Richard and Mildred Loving on this Jan. 26, 1965, prior to filing a suit at Federal Court in Richmond, Va. Richard and Mildred Loving—the couple who inspired the new film Loving—lived in a world where race was not simply…
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All thinking Southerners, at some point, find their minds at war with their hearts, a battle that often ends with the heart claiming victory. It is this triumph of the heart that landed me, a black expatriate Mississippian, back in my home state again.
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Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. The New York Times 2016-11-03 Manohla Dargis, Movie Critic Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in the Jeff Nichols film “Loving.” Credit Ben Rothstein/Focus Features There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly —…
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The Lovings’ Marriage License Is Now On Display At D.C. Court DCist Washington, D.C. 2016-08-31 Rachel Kurzius Photo courtesy of D.C. Courts. D.C. Superior Courthttp://dccourts.gov/internet/superior/main.jsf—not usually a stop for tourists looking for the kinds of historic documents found in the Smithsonian museums. Now, though, the court’s marriage bureau is displaying a collection of seven notable…
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I’m Not the Nanny: Multiracial Families and Colorism Book Review The New York Times 2016-11-03 Allyson Hobbs, Associate Professor of History Stanford University SAME FAMILY, DIFFERENT COLORS: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families By Lori L. Tharps 203 pp. Beacon Press. $25.95. In Danzy Senna’s 1998 novel “Caucasia,” two sisters — Cole and Birdie —…
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The End of Anti-Miscegenation Laws: Loving v. Virginia and Interracial Relationships Multiracial Media 2016-11-03 Joanna L. Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice University of Illinois, Chicago Little Rock, Arkansas protest to keep anti-miscegenation laws on the books. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia.Commons This past weekend, the new movie Loving hit theaters. The film…