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: Arts
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MGM/UA Television has acquired the rights to Rebecca Carroll’s upcoming memoir Surviving the White Gaze in a competitive situation ahead of its release. Simon & Schuster is set to publish the book on February 2, 2021.
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George Bridgetower, the original dedicatee of the “Kreutzer” Sonata, was a charismatic prodigy but faded into history.
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Through the eyes of a 17-year-old mixed race girl, “Blue Beneath My Skin” explores the nuances of identity and ethnicity, and how self-perception and the perceptions put upon us can push us onto a destructive path.
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Featuring four new plays by emerging black writers, Steven Kavuma’s “This Is Black” is a highly anticipated festival that promises to be a success. The first part of the festival, Double Bill I, presents highly passionate and thoughtful performances of two one-handers, which leave plenty of room for thought.
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The second entry in Alchemist Theatre’s ‘Writers On Hold’ series, “Blue Beneath My Skin” continues to explore the themes of racial identity and feminimity. Written and performed by Macadie Amoroso, the monologue focuses on a 17-year-old mixed race girl, who after she was abandoned as a baby by a canal, was found and later raised…
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Co-editors Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson are seeking submissions of writing and/or artwork for a follow-up anthology of work by and about mixed-race women, intended for publication by Inanna Publications in 2020-21.
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While much of Johnson’s history remains mysterious, his special place in art history is assured. The next renowned African American artists to emerge in the United States, Robert S. Duncanson and Henry Ossawa Tanner, followed Johnson by decades.
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The US author on topping the bestseller charts with her new novel, why being right is overrated, and the TV show bringing her joy in lockdown
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HBO won a wild auction that sources said saw 17 bidders vying for “The Vanishing Half,” the novel by Brit Bennett that is currently atop The New York Times bestseller list.