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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As the population of mixed-race Japanese—popularly called hāfu—grows, entertainers and athletes with bicultural backgrounds are increasingly prominent. However, most of those considered hāfu in Japan live normal, private lives, struggling daily with curiosity, prejudice, and their own identity conflicts. Whole, a new short film, takes up the issues facing just such people through the story…
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In this web exclusive, Joy Bivins, director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talks with Michelle Miller about the personal impact of someone of mixed race passing for White (or Black).
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Paula Patton On The New Series ‘Sacrifice’ And Why She Doesn’t Identify As Biracial Clay Cane Show 2021-11-04 See: Rory Evans, “Paula Patton’s Precious Moments,” Women’s Health, January 27, 2010. https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19985167/precious-movie/.
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Ruth Negga has given the subject of identity a lot of thought.
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Anne Liu Kellor with Kristen Millares Young — Heart Radical Third Place Books EventsThird Place Books2021-10-01 Kristen Millares Young, Host On September 28th, 2021, Third Place Books was honored to host Anne Liu Kellor for the release of her debut memoir, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging. She will be joined in…
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Deep Dive with Dorian Warren: Passing The Takeaway WNYC Studios 2021-11-04 Melissa Harris-Perry, Host and Managing Editor Dorian Warren, Co-host This month, “Passing,” a new film by writer and director Rebecca Hall premieres on Netflix. Adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 Harlem Renaissance novel of the same name, “Passing” is shot in black and white. It’s…
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Interview with Virginia Summey, Part 1 Merrittocracy: History to the People 2019-08-22 Keri Leigh Merritt, Host Atlanta, Georgia In the first part of my interview with Ginny Summey, an independent scholar, we talk about her forthcoming book on Elreta Melton Alexander, one of the first Black women to become a lawyer in the US, and…
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In her new book, “White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History,” historian Jane Dailey places white fear of Black sexuality and interracial sex at the center of America’s history of racism.
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For nearly a decade, the actress-turned-filmmaker tried to get her ambitious Nella Larsen adaptation made. As she tells IndieWire, she knew there was only one way to make it happen.