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: Interviews
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Ijoma Mangold: “I was a Wagner fan already at 15” Exberliner Berlin, Germany 2022-01-06 Alexander Wells Photo: Christian Werner Ijoma Mangold is a man who speaks his mind. One of Germany’s top literary critics, he currently lives in Berlin as the culture and politics correspondent for Die Zeit, while featuring regularly on German television and…
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Join us in the New Year for a virtual discussion with Netflix film “Passing” screenwriter and director Rebecca Hall, alongside actresses Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.
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Rebecca Hall shares her Brief But Spectacular take on “Passing” and on her own racial identity as part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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“My reasons for writing began with my father, and he remains the elusive character I search for, opening one door after another.”
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Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967 Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections Columbia Center for Oral History Columbia University, New York, New York Digitized 2010 (Originally recorded in 1967) DOI: 10.7916/d8-cpb1-1692 Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) interviewed by William R. Keylor (1944-). Listen to the interview here.
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These days, Bennett is working on her third novel and occasionally appears in public events, mostly virtual, such as her event Sunday presented by the Columbus Metropolitan Library. She spoke recently by telephone with The Dispatch…
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Award-winning novelist and educator Jewell Parker Rhodes and her daughter, young adult author Kelly McWilliams, came together in conversation to discuss book bans and young adult literature.
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Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” liberated her family, as Hall’s grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit.
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‘Passing’ filmmaker Rebecca Hall shares the personal story behind her movie Fresh Air National Public Radio 2021-11-30 Terri Gross, Host Rebecca Hall (right) works on the set of Passing with actors Ruth Negga (left) and Tessa Thompson. Netflix Actor/filmmaker Rebecca Hall had what she describes as a “real gasp” moment when she first read Nella…
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Two leading scholars discuss the complex relationship between Black and Native people.