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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New Film Shows Misty Copeland’s Journey as a Black Ballerina NBC News 2015-09-30 Maya Chung The 2015 Urbanworld Festival closed out on Saturday night with the highly anticipated documentary “A Ballerina’s Tale,” which details Misty Copeland’s journey to become a principal ballerina. The film festival, founded in 1997, is a five-day event that showcases narrative…
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And Korla Pandit had reason to never speak. Speaking might have given away his secret…
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Black History Month Firsts: Lilian Bader Black History Month 2015 2015-10-13 Omar Alleyne Lawler, Editor Lilian Bader, Photo Credit courtesy of the Imperial War Museum The contributions and efforts of Lilian Bader to World War Two for the Caribbean community actually starts before her birth, with her Fathers contribution in World War One. Marrying in…
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Leading Aircraftwoman in the WAAF and one of the first black women to join the British Armed Forces The Independent 2015-04-06 Stephen Bourne Lilian Bader (1918-2015) Bader trained as an instrument repairer, became a Leading Aircraftwoman and soon gained the rank of Acting Corporal. I first met Lilian Bader at the Imperial War Museum in…
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Misty Copeland on Why She Doesn’t Identify as Biracial: ‘I Am Viewed as a Black Woman’ Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2015-10-15 Evelyn Diaz Misty Copeland The history-making ballerina on changing the game. Misty Copeland and director Nelson George recently talked about their new documentary, A Ballerina’s Tale, which chronicles Copeland’s awe-inspiring rise to becoming the…
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Korla Pandit spoke not a word when he was on camera. He just wore a bejeweled turban, played the organ… and stared. That was the extent of his act. It was all he needed — the shimmery tones of his music, the vague evocation of the Far East, and that indelible Mona Lisa countenance with…
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Exotic Korla Pandit hid race under swami persona SFGate 2015-08-15 Jessica Zack Eric Christensen grew up in San Francisco in the 1950s and remembers his mother, “like a lot of women then, being transfixed by Korla Pandit on television. He wore a jeweled turban and had these mesmerizing eyes that made women feel he could…
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Musician’s life brings more than passing interest in passing San Francisco Chronicle 2015-07-28 Leah Garchik, Features Columnist As colleagues at KGO-TV, Eric Christensen and John Turner — Eric was a sports producer, John a news editor/arts producer — shared a passion for exotic cultural phenomena. Retired, they’ve combined know-how with that passion to make the…
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Grace Lee Boggs, Human Rights Advocate for 7 Decades, Dies at 100 The New York Times 2015-10-05 Robert D. McFadden Ms. Boggs and her husband, James. Credit LeeLee Films, Inc. Grace Lee Boggs, one of the nation’s oldest human rights activists, who waged a war of inspiration for civil rights, labor, feminism, the environment and…
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Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist University of Oklahoma Press September 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806149165 Amina Hassan, Consultant & Researcher The Azara Group, New York, New York Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the…