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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Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut “Passing” dives into the nuance of racial identity and the complex realities of racial passing, with Variety’s Sundance review touting Hall’s work: “This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of ‘passing’ — being Black but pretending to be white — ought to be too ambitious for a first-time…
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A superbly performed study of racialized longing and feminine dissatisfaction in 1920s New York, lit by searing intelligence and compassion.
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Finding oneself in ‘Surviving the White Gaze’ The Boston Globe 2021-01-28 Blaise Allysen Kearsley, Globe Correspondent Judith Rudd for The Boston Globe Surviving The White Gaze: A Memoir By Rebecca Carroll Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $26 The core function of tween- and teen-hood is the lofty job of figuring out who we are, as…
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You belong to the cultural communities of both your mother and your father.
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Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy [Smith Review] The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research Volume 50, (Winter 2020) – Issue 4: Black Girlhood pages 86-88 DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2020.1811610 Justin Smith, Ph.D. candidate in English and African American Pennsylvania State University Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and…
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The presence of Afro-Argentines had a significant and irrefutable effect on Argentine culture, although their origins have been for the most part erased. For instance, tango— ironically one of Argentina’s most well-known cultural contributions around the world— was a direct result of African influence.
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Millions of people living on the islands today inherited genes from the people who made them home before Europeans arrived.
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Genetic continuity across transitions in pottery styles reveals that cultural changes during the Ceramic Age were not driven by migration of genetically differentiated groups from the mainland, but instead reflected interactions within an interconnected Caribbean world.
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In three segments, we’re going to have a conversation about how Afro-Latinx folks often get left out of national discussions about Blackness and, in particular, the Black Lives Matter movement.