Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Ralston, Elreta Melton Alexander NCPediaState Library of North CarolinaRaleigh, North Carolina2013 Virginia L. Summey, Historian, Author, and Faculty FellowLloyd International Honors College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Elreta Melton Alexander was a pioneering African-American attorney from Greensboro, North Carolina. Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, she was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a…
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1 In 7 People Are ‘Some Other Race’ On The U.S. Census. That’s A Big Data Problem National Public Radio 2021-09-30 Hansi Lo Wang Growing numbers of Latinos identifying as “Some other race” for the U.S. census have boosted the category to become the country’s second-largest racial group after “White.” Researchers are concerned the catchall…
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Essays investigate Beyoncé’s global impact
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A young woman pays a devastating price for freedom in this heartrending and breathtaking novel of the nineteenth-century South.
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The Gibbes Museum of Art has announced the second installment of its film series, titled “Gibbes Films in Focus: Passing Strange,” which will feature the Lowcountry’s first screening of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection, “Passing,” by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland, and Alexander Skarsgård and adapted from the groundbreaking novel…
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My concern in this article is how American popular culture and mass media entertainment has become the foremost platform for racial meaning production, perpetuating false racial stereotypes, yet at the same time attempting to expose its own role as image-maker.
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Leave Them Wanting More: Douglas Sirk and Imitation of Life Steyn Online 2021-09-18 Rick McGinnis, Rick’s Flicks When Douglas Sirk left Hollywood he was at the zenith of his career, twenty years after he’d arrived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany, unsure if he’d ever make another movie. He had just made his most…
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Adele Logan Alexander Charlie Rose1999-10-26 Charlie Rose, Host Adele Logan Alexander discusses the history of identity, race, and class in the United States through her own family story, as she does in her book “Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926.” Watch the entire interview (00:17:52) here.
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From 00:21:44 through 00:34:01 in the video, Dr. Ball discusses his views on multiraciality in the media and how it connects with blackness in the United States.