Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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UT students, staff reflect on experiences with racial passing The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin Community Since 1900 2021-12-05 Sofia Treviño, Life & Arts Senior Reporter Julius Shieh/The Daily Texan Disliking her paler skin compared to other darker-complected Hispanics growing up, Rachel González-Martin spent hours lying under the sun willing herself…
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Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” liberated her family, as Hall’s grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit.
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Stephen Wall’s grandfather, also named Stephen (left, from family album), had been a wealthy white plantation owner and slaveholder in Rockingham, North Carolina in the early 19th century. He never married, but fathered many children with some of his enslaved women.
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These NYC kids have written the history of an overlooked Black female composer National Public Radio 2021-12-02 Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR Arts Desk Three of the student authors of Who Is Florence Price? (left to right: Sebastián Núñez, Hazel Peebles and Sophia Shao), joined by their English teacher, Shannon Potts. Courtesy of Special Music School For…
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From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.
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Young musicians tell the story of a girl and her music
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Mystic surprised the world by walking away from a record deal after her successful debut album. But for her, it was all part of the plan to create and be of service, completely on her own terms.
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New Children’s Book Tells the Story of Florence Price Wise Music Classical 2021-10-08 A classroom exploration and discovery led students to create an illustrated biography of a composer whose music is being widely celebrated around the world today. Their book Who is Florence Price? will be published by Schirmer Trade Books, part of Wise Music…
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Director Rebecca Hall’s recent adaptation of Nella Larsen’s exquisite second novel, Passing (1929), is visually stunning. I had the pleasure of seeing the film on the big screen, during its limited theatrical run and before its Netflix release.