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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English 108: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Post-Civil Rights Fiction and Film: Interracial Encounters University of California, Los Angeles Winter 2012 Caroline Streeter, Associate Professor of English This course looks at literature and film depicting interracial sexuality and mixed race identities in the post-Civil Rights era. Course materials depict individuals and communities that trouble and challenge…
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ROMST 200.01: Critical Approaches to Mestizaje Duke University Spring 2012 Claudia Milian, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies; African & African American Studies This seminar will examine critical theories of mestizaje, miscegenation, mixed race, and hybridity as articulated in Latino, Latin American, and African-American projects of racial identification and classification. In particular, the…
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ASAM 187. Asian Pacific American Mixed Race Issues Pomona College, Claremont, California Spring 2008 Course will explore the lives of racially and ethnically mixed people, focusing on Asian Pacific Americans. As intermarriage rates increase for all groups, the experiences of multiracial people reflect in distinctive ways the cultural and identity choices that individuals and communities…
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FYS 102N: Exploring Mixed Identities University of Maryland, Baltimore County Fall 2011 The aim of this course is to move beyond prevalent monoracial discourses by examining identities and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course explores many topics such as the history of racialization, processes of othering, acceptance and the politics of claiming,…
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Interview with Kym Ragusa: (Passing) Reel New York: Season 2 thirteen: WNET New York From Week Four (May 1997) Kathy High, Series Curator Series curator Kathy High conducted this telephone interview with Kym Ragusa in May, 1997. Q: The first question I’d like to ask you, Kym, is what prompted you to make the piece?…
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Passing Third World Newsreel 1995 Black & White 9 minutes United States Kym Ragusa The videomaker’s grandmother recounts the tale of a trip she and her lover took through the segregated South of the 1950s. As her story unfolds—revealing as much in silences and gaps as it does in its actual narrative—a blues and gospel…
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Fuori/Outside Third World Newsreel 1997 Color 12 minutes United States Kym Ragusa In Fuori/Outside the videomaker, a woman of African American and Italian American descent, examines her relationship with her Italian American grandmother. The lives of the two women are inextricably linked to local geographies; family stories embedded in the walls of tenement buildings and…
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Documenting Race and Gender: Kym Ragusa Discusses “Passing” and “Fuori/Outside” Women’s Studies Quarterly Volume 30, Numbers 1/2, Looking Across the Lens: Women’s Studies and Film (Spring – Summer, 2002) pages 213-220 Livia Tenzer, Managing Editor Social Text In her two award-winning short documentaries Passing (1996) and Fuori/Outside (1997), New York-based filmmaker Kym Ragusa explores the…