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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Category: Biography
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Phil Wang, the stand-up comic you may recall for his viral video spoofing a Tom Hiddleston advert, has been baring his soul, or at least some of it, in his new book “Sidesplitter.”
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She was raped by the owner of a notorious slave jail. Later, she inherited it. The Washington Post 2020-02-01 Sydney Trent, Local enterprise reporter An engraving print of the Lumpkin Slave Jail, from Corey’s “A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary.” (City of Richmond) Robert Lumpkin was one of the South’s most prolific and brutal…
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Work Of First African American Painter With International Reputation Explored Art Where You’re At National Public Radio 2021-09-07 Susan Stamberg, Special Correspondent Photograph of Henry Ossawa Tanner in 1907. Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917)/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution I just met Henry Ossawa Tanner. Nice trick, since he died in 1937. Tanner was the first African American…
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It’s slow progress since Donyale Luna became the first black supermodel nearly 50 years ago. Especially since most inveterate fashion-watchers don’t even know Luna’s name.
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With over 50,000 Chinese-Jamaicans residing on the Caribbean island, how did such a unique community form?
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Fiercely progressive and independent, he was a persistent critic of the liberal establishment, especially Black leaders like Barack Obama.
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For Toomer, however, this close identification with black folk culture, and the Negro in general, was inimical to his own self-conception. He largely attempted to evade conventional modes of racial identification. As he pursued a career as a writer, the young artist began to articulate an idiosyncratic and highly individualistic notion of race wherein he…
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New York City Ballet’s Rachel Hutsell Is Turning Heads in the Corps Pointe 2018-05-22 Marina Harss Rachel Hutsell Photographed for Pointe by Jayme Thornton. “I’m very cautious by nature,” Rachel Hutsell says over herbal tea at Lincoln Center between rehearsals. You wouldn’t think so from the way she moves onstage or in the studio. In…
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The remains of American-born singer and dancer Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon monument in Paris, making the entertainer who is a World War II hero in France the first Black woman to get the country’s highest honor.