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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Book Reviews: Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist [Geiger Review] Comparative Civilizations Review Volume 75, Number 75, Fall 2016 Article 11 pages 125-126 Pedro Geiger G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2012 The long and excellent book by Reginald…
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Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’ African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Peter Cole, Professor of History Western Illinois University A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across the nation arrives just in time. Released…
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A Comic’s Secret Southern Story Below The Line Garden & Gun 2016-12-13 CJ Lotz A panel from “Krazy Kat.” Courtesy Krazy Before “The Far Side,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” or even Mickey Mouse, one cartoon stole the show. From 1913 to 1944, a panel called “Krazy Kat” ran in newspapers across the country and counted “Peanuts” creator…
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How a mixed-race love affair between an African prince and an Englishwoman caused an international furore The Daily Telegraph Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2016-12-16 Marea Donnelly, History writer Ruth Williams and her husband Prince Seretse Khama in London in 1949. ONE can only surmise as to whether bank clerk Ruth Williams and her Bechuanaland prince Seretse…
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The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover [Silkey Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 822-823 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw452 Sarah L. Silkey, Associate Professor of History Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du…
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In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art.
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When Labels Don’t Matter: George Herriman and Krazy Kat The Beat 2016-12-14 Heidi MacDonald, Editor-In-Chief We’ve been writing a bit about Michael Tisserand’s comprehensive new biography of George Herriman, Krazy: A Life in Black and White, but last night I got to hear him talk about it at one of the stops on his mini…
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How Kathleen Collins’s Daughter Kept Her Late Mother’s Career Alive Vogue 2016-09-05 Nina Lorez Collins Nina Collins in a Karen Walker dress. Photographed by Ryan Pfluger, Vogue, September 2016 A struggling filmmaker whose life was cut short by illness, Kathleen Collins has a soaring career since her daughter reopened her archive. Ten years ago, in…
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What was the source of Krazy Kat’s comic genius? The Washington Post 2016-12-06 Glen David Gold Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White (New York: HarperCollins, 2016) Genius is simplicity. A dog, who is a policeman, loves a cat, who loves a mouse. The mouse throws bricks at the cat, and…