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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Category: United States
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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.
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The objective of this volume is twofold: it aims at shedding light on the way texts or films show the work of individual memory and collective recollection as they grapple with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes. Our second objective has been to explore the great variety in…