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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Michelle Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 The New York Times 2016-06-18 William Grimes Michelle Cliff sometime in the 1980s. In 1975, she met the poet Adrienne Rich, who became her partner and died in 2012. Michelle Cliff, a Jamaican-American writer whose novels, stories and nonfiction essays drew on her multicultural…
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New Yale award to honor high school juniors for community engagement Yale News New Haven, Connecticut 2016-06-15 This photograph of Ebenezer Bassett is part of the collection in the Yale Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Select high school juniors across the nation will be honored for their public service through the Yale Bassett Award…
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How Pat Cleveland Conquered Racism to Become the World’s First Black Supermodel Harper’s Bazaar 2016-06-15 Kate Storey, News Edtor Photograph: Kathryn Wirsing Pat Cleveland was 16 years old when she was told she would never make it as a model. It was the late Sixties, and Cleveland, who had just signed with Ford Models, was…
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Theatre Review: ‘An Octoroon’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Maryland Theatre Guide 2016-06-05 Jennifer Minich We need to talk about An Octoroon: a razor-sharp, thought-provoking, radical, comical blast from the past. Playwright and DC native (bonus points) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to Woolly Mammoth for the DC premiere of An Octoroon, an adaption of the 1859…
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The 18th-century Brazilian sculptor Aleijadinho was the mixed-race son of a black slave and one of his country’s most legendary artists. In the gold-rich state of Minas Gerais, where millions lost their lives in the mines, tourists still pay to visit the immaculate baroque churches he embellished.
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Pat Cleveland: Early Supermodel and Author With Many Tales The New York Times 2016-06-15 Guy Trebay, Chief Menswear Critic The fashion model Pat Cleveland in her home studio in New Jersey. Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times WILLINGBORO, N.J. — The peacocks were rooting around in the bushes, strutting and pecking and ruffling…
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Editorial Observer; Back When Skin Color Was Destiny — Unless You Passed for White The New York Times 2003-09-07 Brent Staples The New Yorker was trying not to speak ill of the dead when it described Anatole Broyard as the ”famously prickly critic for the Times, a man who demanded so much from books that…
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Racial identity: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Anatole Broyard The Globe and Mail 1999-11-23 Robert Fulford For many years, Anatole Broyard of The New York Times was a dashing figure in literary New York, a critic of exceptional charm and wit. He was said to be one of those people who talk spontaneously in well-shaped…