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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Ralston, Elreta Melton Alexander NCPediaState Library of North CarolinaRaleigh, North Carolina2013 Virginia L. Summey, Historian, Author, and Faculty FellowLloyd International Honors College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Elreta Melton Alexander was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a…
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De Waal’s ‘extraordinary’ memoir goes to Tinder Press The Bookseller: At the Heart of Publishing since 1858 2021-09-28 Heloise Wood, Deputy News Editor Tinder Press has landed Kit de Waal’s memoir about growing up in Birmingham in the Sixties and Seventies, Without Warning and Only Sometimes, which she described as “the story I always wanted…
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1 In 7 People Are ‘Some Other Race’ On The U.S. Census. That’s A Big Data Problem National Public Radio 2021-09-30 Hansi Lo Wang Growing numbers of Latinos identifying as “Some other race” for the U.S. census have boosted the category to become the country’s second-largest racial group after “White.” Researchers are concerned the catchall…
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The Gibbes Museum of Art has announced the second installment of its film series, titled “Gibbes Films in Focus: Passing Strange,” which will feature the Lowcountry’s first screening of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection, “Passing,” by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland, and Alexander Skarsgård and adapted from the groundbreaking novel…
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My concern in this article is how American popular culture and mass media entertainment has become the foremost platform for racial meaning production, perpetuating false racial stereotypes, yet at the same time attempting to expose its own role as image-maker.
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Leave Them Wanting More: Douglas Sirk and Imitation of Life Steyn Online 2021-09-18 Rick McGinnis, Rick’s Flicks When Douglas Sirk left Hollywood he was at the zenith of his career, twenty years after he’d arrived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany, unsure if he’d ever make another movie. He had just made his most…
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Holly McDonald can pinpoint the exact moment her love for the theatre began.
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My creativity can be traced back to my heritage, to the skin colour that defined how I was perceived. But, like my ancestors, I wouldn’t accept defeat
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She became a park ranger at 85 to tell her story of segregation. Now 100, she’s the oldest active ranger. The Washington Post 2021-09-24 Sydney Page Betty Reid Soskin at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif. Soskin is the oldest active ranger in the National Park…