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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‘Blasian Narratives’ struggles with the question: Black enough? Asian enough? Kore Asian Media 2016-08-16 Tae Hong “Blasian Narratives” performs inside Stanford Theatre. (Harrison Troung/Courtesy photo) Teaching third graders in an underserved area of Brooklyn, Cenisa Gavin often looks out at her mostly black and Latino students and is reminded of the failings of her own…
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Our Diversity Isn’t Looking Very Diverse Affinity Magazine 2016-08-20 Etienne Rodriguez Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Look alive, True Believers, if the rumors are to be believed, then Zendaya is playing the role of Mary Jane Watson in the upcoming Spider-Man movie. This is the latest in a series of black women being…
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Richard Pryor’s Daughter Opens Up About The Racism Her Family Faced In Beverly Hills The Huffington Post 2016-08-18 Lisa Capretto The Oprah Winfrey Network “I’m a product of this thing that everyone was against.” When Rain Pryor was born in 1969, her father, Richard Pryor, had already begun transitioning from a relatively mild joke-telling comedian…
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White People, Stop Saying You’re ‘Black On The Inside’ The Establishment 2016-08-15 Natasha Diaz White and Wrong White people are consistent; I’ll give them that. They take Black culture as the blueprint for their fashion, entertainment, music, and new hip terms to enhance their Urban Dictionary posts. They colonize neighborhoods, forcing out people who have…
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How Tessa Thompson Became A Modern Marvel BuzzFeed 2016-07-20 Anita Badejo, Associate Features Editor At a time when Hollywood is finally developing the kinds of projects for actors of color that had traditionally been out of reach, Tessa Thompson’s ascent to the A-list isn’t just welcome — it’s necessary. How can she embody this pivotal…
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Half-Caste Actresses in Colonial Brazilian Opera Houses Latin American Theatre Review Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 57-71 DOI: 10.1353/ltr.2012.0016 Rosana Marreco Brescia Universidade Nova de Lisboa Operatic and theatrical historians in both Brazil and Portugal frequently mention that around the last quarter of the 18th century, Queen Maria I forbade women to perform…
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Taraji P. Henson Is a Math Genius in ‘Hidden Figures’ First Trailer Variety 2016-08-15 Dave McNary, Film Reporter Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae break the glass ceiling — among other barriers — in the first trailer for the NASA drama “Hidden Figures,” which debuted Sunday night during the Rio Olympics. The teaser…
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Madame E. Azalia Hackley was an African American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among the African-American people as a tool for social change. Her efforts laid the groundwork for the use of spirituals as freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Half-Asian Tattooers Use Art To Confront Mixed Race Stereotypes Konbini 2016-08-04 Morgan English Five Asian-Canadian artists (some female, some genderqueer) have joined forces for a new exhibit that explores what it means to be half-Asian in the west. Of the crew, four are also tattooers: Nomi Chi, Mandy Tsung, Shannon Elliott and Katie So. Their…