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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Filmmaker in Focus: Lacey Schwartz Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival 2014 2014-09-11 Aurora Herrera Throughout history and for various reasons, many people who are not white have passed for white. But how many people have passed without knowing they were doing so? That is precisely what the documentary Little White Lie, a deeply personal film by Lacey…
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David Palumbo-Liu interviews Ruth Ozeki Los Angeles Review of Books 2014-09-16 David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature and English Stanford University Where We Are for the Time Being with Ruth Ozeki Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and a Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of three novels: My Year…
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Making Race Count in the Census New York University King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South New York, New York 10012 Wednesday, 2014-09-17, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Are Hispanics becoming white? Are Latin@s a race? How can we account for race and ethnicity in ways that best represent our interests? Can…
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From Harlem to Shenzhen: One Jamaican-Chinese Woman’s Quest to Find Her Family The Wall Street Journal 2014-09-02 Debra Bruno Growing up in New York’s Harlem, Paula Williams Madison knew she had a Chinese grandfather, even though she had never met him. When people found out, she says, most of them would make comments such as…
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A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan Public Radio International 2014-09-15 Leo Hornak, Producer Susie Blair, Producer Most people would probably run for shelter if confronted with death threats. But Mo Asumang had a different impulse: “I don’t want to hide — it’s not my nature.” Asumang — who is half-German and…
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The Morristown Festival of Books is Proud to Announce the Authors for September 26 and 27, 2014 Morristown Festival of Books: Where Readers & Authors Meet Morristown, New Jersey 2014-06-24 We are pleased to present our Friday night Keynote speaker and 21 authors appearing at the all-day Saturday Festival! They will be sharing their perspectives…
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Juxta: A film by Hiroko Yamazaki Women Make Movies 1989 29 minutes BW, 16mm/DVD Order No. W99356 Hiroko Yamazaki This beautiful drama observes the psychological effects of racism on two children of Japanese women and American servicemen. Thirty-one year old Kate, the daughter of a Japanese/white mixed marriage visits her childhood friend, Ted, a Japanese-Black…
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Creoles and Melungeons: More Important Than Ever to America Melungeon Heritage Association: One People, All Colors 2014-08-22 Nick Douglas The unique origins of Creoles and Melungeons parallel and complement each other. Their genesis is a uniquely American phenomenon. Creoles, like Melungeons, are a race of black, white and Native American people. Most Creoles and Melungeons…