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 really gave me an access point into the history of my family that otherwise would have remained hidden,” the first-time director says
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Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), who had an English mother and Sierra Leone Creole father, gained considerable respect in England during his short life, including early support from Edward Elgar. In part because of the success of The Song of Hiawatha, a trilogy of cantatas, Coleridge-Taylor made three tours to the United States and was received in 1904…
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North End Business Association announces it will commission a commemorative art piece
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‘Passing’ keeps its writing simple, asking viewers to lean in for greater understanding The Los Angeles Times 2022-01-18 Rebecca Hall Adapting Nella Larsen’s slim novella took writer-director Rebecca Hall 13 years. “Ultimately, I did my best to build my script and my film, not so much out of language as out of small moments of…
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Pearl Hobson was among a number of African-American performers who left the United States in the 1900s to somewhat escape racism.
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Rebecca Hall shares her Brief But Spectacular take on “Passing” and on her own racial identity as part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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“I am who I am. I’m good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I’m fine with it.”
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As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race.
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Ewing, also the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, died Sunday at her home in Detroit
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A new U.S. stamp will honor an Upstate New York woman who was the first Black and Native American sculptor to earn international recognition.