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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Mixed race identity is complicated, to say the least.
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It’s this that motivated London-based photographer Susan Dale to launch HaluHalo, the first photo series of its kind to explore the lesser-known intricacies of mixed race identity.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall has set up “Passing,” an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a member of one racial group who seeks to be accepted by a different racial group.
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In her first New York show, the artist creates unexpected characters that defy stereotypes.
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In their films at the Berlin Biennial, Natasha E. Kelly and Mario Pfeifer address the growing divide in Germany between the politics of liberal inclusion and on-the-ground ignorance, racism, and suppression.
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“Converse, Converse” is a two-channel video installation that creates a virtual conversation between family members who have never met.
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EXCLUSIVE: It’s a great story that delves into the caste system, racism and sexism. The Rhinelander Affair, written by William Kinsolving, follows the controversial 1925 divorce trial in New York involving a man from an upper-class New Rochelle family who married a bi-racial, working-class woman. It is a ripped from the headlines story from the…
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As an artist she transcended constraints, and as a woman of color, she confronted a society that wished to categorize her.
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She pours fire and fury into powerful songs that target everything from police shootings to slavery. The musician reveals all about her mission to put the black back into bluegrass – and Shakespeare
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Works Progress Austin: Casta by Adrienne Dawes Salvage Vanguard Theater 110 Barton Springs Road Austin, Texas 78704 2018-07-21 Photo by Bonica Ayala. Pictured Jesus valles, Tarik Daniels, Linzy Beltran Salvage Vanguard Theater invites you to attend a staged reading of Casta by Adrienne Dawes, presented as part of Works Progress Austin. Launched in 2006, Works…