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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Shades of Gray American Jewish Life Magazine January/February 2007 E. B. Solomont Lacey Schwartz had the typical middle-class Jewish upbringing in upstate New York. Until her 18th birthday when her mom told her she was the product of an affair with a black man. Now Lacey is making a documentary about her newfound life as…
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The New Hollywood Racelessness: Only the Fast, Furious, (and Multiracial) Will Survive Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2, Winter 2005 pages 50-67 Mary C. Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies University of Texas, Austin This article interrogates the rise of the “multiculti” action film and the casting of multiracial actors as Hollywood action film protagonists.…
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“Skinfolks” and “Kinfolks”: Racial Passing in American Films 1930-1960 Department of American Studies University of Virginia Summer 2002 Introduction Characters with a desire to become something that they are not in order to escape their realities have been present from the earliest American films to the present. The popular encyclopedia of American cinema, Videohound, categorizes…
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Mixed Race/Mixed Space in Media Culture & Militarized Zones Thursday Afternoon Forum Series University of California, Berkeley 691 Barrows Hall 2010-10-07, 16:00 to 17:30 PDT (Local Time) A Critical Race Theory Approach to Understanding Cinematic Representations of the Mixed Race Experience Kevin Escudero, Ethnic Studies This presentation focuses on the developmental trajectory of the portrayal…
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VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs Antioch University Midwest Winter 2010 This course is designed as a multidisciplinary exploration of race, gender, and identity utilizing oral and written narratives of Black-white mixed race women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as source material. Drawing from elements of cultural studies, African American studies, American studies, and…
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An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege (review) Libraries & the Cultural Record Volume 45, Number 3, 2010 E-ISSN: 1932-9555 Print ISSN: 1932-4855 pages 375-377 Nena Couch, Curator and Professor of Theater Ohio State University The life of the librarian seldom is acknowledged beyond the confines of the community in…
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Trading Races: Joseph and Marie Bunel, a Diplomat and a Merchant in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue and Philadelphia Journal of the Early Republic Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2010 pages 351-376 E-ISSN: 1553-0620 Print ISSN: 0275-1275 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Based on extensive research in French, British, and…
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Sandweiss unearths a compelling tale of secret racial identity News at Princeton Princeton University 2009-12-17 Jennifer Greenstein Altmann For three decades, history professor Martha Sandweiss had wondered about a little-noticed detail in the life of Clarence King, a well-known figure in the history of the American West. King, a 19th-century geologist and author, was a…