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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Yale College’s first black grad: it’s not who you think Yale Alumni Magazine 2014-02-28 Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL Mark Alden Branch ’86 In 1874, Edward Bouchet became the first African American to graduate from Yale College. Or so the university’s histories tell us—and we’ve reported it ourselves more than once. Yet that very year, a…
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Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield’s Race In Latest ‘Better Know A District’ The Huffington Post 2014-03-25 Carol Hartsell, Senior Comedy Editor Stephen Colbert unveiled a new edition of “Better Know A District” on Monday’s show, and it was chock-full of racial misunderstandings, confusing questions and barbecue taste tests… like all of his…
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Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 205-217 Juda Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Passing for white, a phenomenon that once captivated writers as diverse as Charles Chesnutt, Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, and Mark Twain, no longer seems…
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U.S. Census looking at big changes in how it asks about race and ethnicity Pew Research Center 2014-03-14 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor at the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer at the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project The Census Bureau has embarked on a years-long research project intended…
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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Emily Clark (review) [Wright] Early American Literature Volume 49, Number 1, 2014 page 257-262 DOI: 10.1353/eal.2014.0015 Nazera Sadiq Wright, Assistant Professor of English University of Kentucky The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in…
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Discovery Leads Yale to Revise a Chapter of Its Black History The New York Times 2014-03-28 Ariel Kaminer On the campus of Yale University, Edward Bouchet has long been a venerated name. Hailed as the first African-American to graduate from Yale College, in 1874, he went on to be the first African-American to earn a…
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New Contenders Emerge in Quest to Identify Yale’s First African-American Graduate The New York Times 2014-03-16 Ariel Kaminer For Richard Henry Green, recently declared to have been Yale College’s first known African-American graduate, fame, or at least the certainty of his claim on history, was fleeting. Just last month, an Americana specialist at the Swann…
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Archibald J. Motley, Jr.’s Paintings: Modern Art Shaped by Precision, Candor, and Soul Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art & its Discontents 2014-03-09 Edward M. Gómez A week ago, 12 Years A Slave won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first time in the history of the Oscars that the top prize went to a film…
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Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2001 Campus Drive Durham, North Carolina 27705 On view 2014-01-30 through 2014-05-11 ABOUT Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, the first retrospective of the American artist’s paintings in two decades, will originate at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on January 30,…
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Diversity reaches new levels in Honey Maid ads USA Today 2014-03-10 Bruce Horovitz, Marketing Reporter Honey Maid is the latest brand to launch an ad campaign featuring interracial, gay families. USA TODAY America’s biggest brands are at an advertising crossroads, and the new diversity that their ads project has suddenly emerged as one of society’s…