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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It’s part of the long history of erasing people of mixed heritage.
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But what if Meghan Markle rejects her blackness? She hasn’t done that.
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For 18-year-old model Rina Fukushi, Tokyo is home. But growing up as a mixed-race child in Japan wasn’t always easy. With a Japanese-American father and a Filipina mother, Fukushi was one of a growing number of biracial individuals identifying as “hafu” — a phonetic play on the English word “half.”
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Zendaya has booked what Deadline calls a hot pitch package on the street right now. The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, “The Gilded Years.”
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The hot pitch package on the street is “A White Lie,” an adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel “The Gilded Years.” The book is a psychological thriller built around the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned African-American woman.
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What started as a technique class — focused on turnout of the legs, placement of the arms, straightness of the back — became a larger kind of learning experience, when Ms. Copeland, 35, was joined for an after-class discussion by a trailblazing African-American dancer of another generation, the 86-year-old Carmen de Lavallade. The two spoke…
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Natasha Marshall gives an impassioned performance in a semi-autobiographical show, writes Veronica Lee
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Two African American sisters grow up in racially charged 1960s Georgia, but one is born with fair skin. And when schools integrate in their small town, she decides to change her destiny – by passing for white.
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The editor in chief has taken on a seemingly impossible task: reinventing the glossy magazine for a hyperempathetic generation.