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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‘Passing’ filmmaker Rebecca Hall shares the personal story behind her movie Fresh Air National Public Radio 2021-11-30 Terri Gross, Host Rebecca Hall (right) works on the set of Passing with actors Ruth Negga (left) and Tessa Thompson. Netflix Actor/filmmaker Rebecca Hall had what she describes as a “real gasp” moment when she first read Nella…
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Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of “Passing” expertly uses the craft of cinema to explore race and colorism from a Black point of view, Imani Perry argues.
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Getting into Character: Racial Passing and the Limitations of Performativity and Performance in Britt Bennett’s The Vanishing Half Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Published online 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2021.2007838 Ohad Reznick, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel Judith Butler’s notion of performativity has been criticized because of…
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Kelly McWilliams is the author of the upcoming “Mirror Girls,” a novel about sisterhood and passing.
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With a remarkable fusion of substance and style, Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel unfolds inner lives along with social crises.
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The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price University of Arkansas Press September 2015 Produced by James Greeson Associate Producer – Dale Carpenter Narrated by Julia Sampson Running Time: 00:57:00 DVD ISBN: 978-1-68226-006-7 Born in 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas to extraordinary parents, Florence B. Price became the first African-American woman to…
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“Imperial Educación” examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries’ citizens.
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How an African-American composer’s works were saved from destruction.
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The University of Maryland Medical System and the University of Maryland School of Medicine announced Wednesday that they will stop using the race-based diagnostic equation to estimate kidney function.