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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Darnell Martin Has Looked At Racial Issues From Both Sides Orlando Sentinal Orlando, Florida 1994-10-28 Glenn Lovell San Jose Mercury News Darnell Martin is talking about growing up in an interracial household in the Bronx and about a childhood that inspired her impressive debut feature, I Like It Like That. Her take on street life…
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Finding my roots Eve’s Perspective: Sharing views one post at a time 2016-02-03 Ashley R. Alexander Born in 1872 in Maysville, Alabama. Jordan-Woodard is my 3rd great-grandmother. I couldn’t stop staring at the picture of this young lady. This young mulatto girl from the 19th century, who appears to look white and though there is…
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Racialization, between power and knowledge: a postcolonial reading of public health as a discursive practice Journal of Critical Race Inquiry Volume 1, Number 2 (2011) Patrick Cloos University of Montréal This paper presents and discusses the interdisciplinary theoretical perspective that has been built from a doctoral research on contemporary notions of ̒ race ̓ in…
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Hollywood’s Obsession With the Bottom Line Is Just Discrimination in Disguise Cosmopolitan 2016-02-25 Stephanie Allain Stephanie Allain has worked in Hollywood for more than 30 years, both in and out of the studio system. She’s produced award-winning films including Hustle & Flow, Peeples, Beyond the Lights, and Dear White People. Her next projects include Underground,…
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Twentieth Century-Fox’s Pinky is far from the first Hollywood feature film that depicts an interracial relationship. Despite the evolution of various censorship codes that forbid depicting “miscegenation,” Hollywood has a rich history of mining the salacious or elicit potential from interracial pairing on screen, from Broken Blossoms to Duel in the Sun, Showboat to Imitation…
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“Look, a [picture]!”: Visuality, race, and what we do not see Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 102, Issue 1, 2016 pages 62-78 DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2015.1136074 Elizabeth Kaszynski Department of Communication and Culture Indiana University This article argues that understanding vision and visuality as associated but distinct terms has significant implications for the ways in which we…
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Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women The Huffington Post 2016-03-02 Zeba Blay, Voices Culture Writer It highlights women who are Afro-Brazilian and proud. For the past two years, Brazilian journalist Weudson Ribeiro has been documenting the beauty of Afro-Brazilian women by photographing spontaneous portraits of them in an ongoing project. The…
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Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots NBC News 2016-03-02 Young Jin Kim Sarah Savidakis, 55, lived in South Korea until she was nine years old, at which time she was adopted by a Connecticut family. For Savidakis, who says she has grappled with the effects of early childhood trauma, memories of her…