Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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The fascist who ‘passed’ for white The Guardian 2007-04-04 Gary Younge, Feature Writer and Columnist Lawrence Dennis was a leading light in the American fascist movement of the 1930s. He was a fan of Hitler and a self-avowed anti-semite. Now a new book reveals that he was actually black—although even his wife didn’t know. Gary…
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This article presents various aspects of light-skinned black people “passing” for whites by examining the 1919 case of Francis Patrick Dwyer’s suit to annul his marriage to Clara McCary Dwyer after becoming suspicious that their new baby boy had Negro blood. While Dwyer was correct, he failed to win his suit, and his wife was…
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An Evening with Our New Poet Laureate MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-09-16 Steven F. Riley 2012-2013 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Library of Congress (2012-09-13).©2012, Steven F. Riley Natasha Trethewey is preoccupied about race. It is a fruitful preoccupation for which we all should be grateful. [View the inaugural reading transcript here.] Last Thursday, Emory University Professor Trethewey gave…
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Poetic Justice: Drake and East African Girls The Feminist Wire 2013-04-03 Safy-Hallan Farah, Guest Contributor I am an East African Girl. A couple years ago, one of my friends told me that being an East African meant I’m not really black. A visibly mixed-race girl with a “high yellow” complexion and sandy brown hair telling…
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This article examines Henry Ossawa Tanner’s complex sense of his own racial identity. Tanner’s conflict was born of the fact that in his personal adult life he walked a fragile line between his whiteness and his blackness; in France, he systematically worked to remove race from the equation of his life. The author also identifies…
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“Multiracial” Today, but “What” Tomorrow? The Malleability of Racial Identification Over Time Paper presented at the Population Association of America 2005 Annual Meeting 2005-03-31 through 2005-04-02 Philladelphia, Pennsylvania 27 pages Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Grace Kao, Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies University of Pennsylvania We…