Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Arts
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Seven Hours To Burn Women Make Movies USA/Canada, 1999 9 minutes Color/BW, VHS/16mm Order No. W01699 Shanti Thakur “A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family’s history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archival war footage to narrate the story of her Danish mother’s and Indian father’s experiences. Her mother survives Nazi-occupied…
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Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout The New York Times 2009-07-29 Michael Cieply LOS ANGELES — History repeats itself. But sometimes it needs a little polishing up from Hollywood. Over the last few weeks, the writers of a pair of Civil War-era histories about the anti-Confederate inhabitants of Jones County, Miss., have been trading barbs…
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Hollywood’s Whiteout The New York Times 2011-02-11 Manohla Dargis A. O. Scott CRAMMED into this year’s field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream…
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Passing, Cultural Performance, and Individual Agency: Performative Reflections on Black Masculine Identity Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies Volume 4, Number 3 pages 377-404 DOI: 10.1177/1532708603259680 Bryant Keith Alexander, Acting Dean and Professor of Communication Studies California State University, Los Angeles This performative article uses the trope of “passing” as reference to crossing racial identity borders as well…
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PSU MFA Monday Lecture Series: Laylah Ali Portland State University Campus (at the corner of SW Broadway & Hall) Shattuck Hall Annex 1914 SW Park Ave, Room 198 Portland, Oregon 2011-01-31, 19:30-20:30 PST (Local Time) Laylah Ali, Associate Professor of Art Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Free to the public Laylah Ali was born in Buffalo, New…
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Dominica in Brooklyn The New York Times 2011-01-13 Carol Vogel, Art Reporter The Brooklyn Museum has acquired an 18th-century painting by Agostino Brunias, a little-known London-based Italian artist. Around 1764 the British government sent Brunias to the West Indies to document one of that empire’s newest colonies, Dominica. Depicting two richly dressed mulatto women on…
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Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite artdaily.org: The First Art Newspaper on the Net 2011-01-18 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs. Carll H. de Silver in memory of her…
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Student director tackles ‘mixed race’ issues Daily Titan California State University, Fullerton 2009-05-17 Sean Belk From hapa to mestizo to mulatto, ‘Half ‘n’ Half’ acts out stories and history of miscegenation. Bright colorful faces peered through shadows of the low-lit set. The multi-cultural group of student actors then formed a circle, surrounding an infant, and…