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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“There are two ways of reading Black invisibility and one of them is futuristic.”
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As much as I insist on reaffirming my black roots, people always think the opposite.
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Brit Bennett – Colorism & Racial Passing in “The Vanishing Half” | The Daily Social Distancing Show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah 2020-12-03 Brit Bennett talks about exploring the effects of colorism in Black communities and the ability to pass as white in her new novel “The Vanishing Half.” Watch the interview here.
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Through her work in creating ‘NEGRO: A DOCU-SERIES ABOUT LATINX IDENTITY,’ Harris hopes to dismantle anti-Blackness in the LatinX community.
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INTERVIEW: Davon Loeb, Author of The In-Betweens Hippocampus Magazine: Memorable Creative Nonfiction 2020-07-07 Interview by Amy Eaton Davon Loeb The Book: Beginning with the challenges of how his White father and Black mother met, with their desire “to run away and start fresh and new”—resulting in a sometimes “pretend family”—to a near-archetypal description of his…
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I recently spoke with Thomas again about what has changed in the way we talk about race and identity. We also discussed the effects of the collision of social justice theories with art and institutions, and the best-selling books that are now influencing the national mood and tracing the borders of generational and ideological difference…
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The US author on topping the bestseller charts with her new novel, why being right is overrated, and the TV show bringing her joy in lockdown
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Métis author says the published version of her 1973 memoir ‘didn’t tell the complete story’