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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2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results Independent Publisher May 2014 Congratulations to all of this year’s medalists and sincere thanks to the 2,500+ independent authors and publishers who participated. Even if you didn’t win a medal, know that the competition was very fierce, and that everyone involved in the independent publishing movement is a winner!…
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Reflections of an Undercover Black Girl from San Francisco 50 Shades of Black: Sexuality and Skin Tone in the Formation of Identity 2014-05-07 Stacy Jethroe My skin is tan. My hair is wavy. In Nina Simone’s “Four Women” I might be considered a Saffonia, though my father was neither rich nor white. As a child…
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Portrait of the mystery lady: The incredible story behind the 18th-century painting that inspired a new movie The Daily Mail 2014-05-03 Paula Bryne Attributed to Johann Zoffany (circa 1778) Until recently, little was known about the mixed-race girl in an 18th-century painting associated with Kenwood House in London. But a new book and film reveal…
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Natasha Trethewey Presents Final Lecture as U.S. Poet Laureate, May 14 News from the Library of Congress Library of Congress 2014-04-17 Natasha Trethewey will conclude her tenure as the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress with an evening lecture in the Coolidge Auditorium on May 14. The lecture will start…
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Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children Hyphen—Asian Americans Unabridged 2014-05-06 Sharon H. Chang “Mom, am I White?” A few weeks ago, when I got this question from my four-year-old, I wasn’t sure what to say. Technically my son is “biracial” — but that label does him a severe representative injustice, because his bloodline is actually…
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The Theme of “Passing” in the Novels of James Weldon Johnson and Nella Larsen International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) Volume 1, Number 4 (2014) pages 53-58 ISSN: 2348-0343 Dinesh Babu. P. Department of English Ramanujan College (University of Delhi), Kalkaji, New Delhi, India The depiction of the experience of a very fair-skinned…
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Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 by Dagmar Schultz (review) African Studies Review Volume 57, Number 1, April 2014 pages 237-238 DOI: 10.1353/arw.2014.0038 Patricia-Pia Célérier, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 is a 79-minute documentary in English and German,…
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G.O.P. Hopeful Finds Tribal Tie Cuts Both Ways The New York Times 2014-05-03 Jonathan Martin, National Political Correspondent BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — T. W. Shannon will be Oklahoma’s first black senator if he wins the Republican nomination and is elected this November, but the quiet campaign stirring here about Mr. Shannon’s racial loyalties is not aimed…
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To the Manner Born? The New York Times 2014-05-01 Manohla Dargis ‘Belle’ Centers On a Biracial Aristocrat in the 18th Century No bodices seem to have been harmed, much less ripped, during the making of “Belle,” a period film at once sweeping and intimate, about an 18th-century Englishwoman who transcends her historical moment. Even so,…
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The Hunter and the Farmer: Jean Toomer’s Depression-Era Masculinist Writings AmeriQuests Volume 6, Number 1 (2008) Anastasia C. Curwood, Visiting Fellow James Weldon Johnson Institute for Race and Difference Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In 1937, after he had written the novel Cane, left the African-American culture of Harlem, studied under the mystic Georges Gurdjieff in…