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: Women
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Though today she is little known, Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) was one of the most remarkable women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this autobiography, originally published in 1940, Terrell describes the important events and people in her life.
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When I heard the theme for this month was ‘identity’, the word crisis as an appendage kept coming to mind. As a mixed person it, it seems as though the word “crisis” is constantly attached to identity, as though there is confusion somewhere. This is problematic.
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Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Palgrave Macmillan July 2015 216 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137454171 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137454195 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137454188 Montré Aza Missouri, Associate Professor in Film Howard University, Washington, D.C. Contributing to emerging scholarship on representations of race, gender, sexuality and religion in film and media, Black…
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New ‘Hysterical’ Web Series Explores Single Life for 40-Something Women of Color Chic Rebellion 2015-10-01 Elayne Fluker, Chief Executive Officer “You know, marriage is hard. I’m not always happy–the shit gets hard.” So goes a line by Rain Pryor to actress Esther Friedman in Friedman’s new web series, Hysterical Historical Hillary–which screens at the Bushwick…
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Black History Month Firsts: Lilian Bader Black History Month 2015 2015-10-13 Omar Alleyne Lawler, Editor Lilian Bader, Photo Credit courtesy of the Imperial War Museum The contributions and efforts of Lilian Bader to World War Two for the Caribbean community actually starts before her birth, with her Fathers contribution in World War One. Marrying in…
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Leading Aircraftwoman in the WAAF and one of the first black women to join the British Armed Forces The Independent 2015-04-06 Stephen Bourne Lilian Bader (1918-2015) Bader trained as an instrument repairer, became a Leading Aircraftwoman and soon gained the rank of Acting Corporal. I first met Lilian Bader at the Imperial War Museum in…
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Misty Copeland on Why She Doesn’t Identify as Biracial: ‘I Am Viewed as a Black Woman’ Black Entertainment Television (BET) 2015-10-15 Evelyn Diaz Misty Copeland The history-making ballerina on changing the game. Misty Copeland and director Nelson George recently talked about their new documentary, A Ballerina’s Tale, which chronicles Copeland’s awe-inspiring rise to becoming the…
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Light in the Shadows: Staying at the Table When the Conversation about Race Gets Hard World Trust Films 2010 DVD, 00:45:00 United States Shakti Butler, Director and Producer Light in the Shadows: Staying at the Table When the Conversation about Race Gets Hard records a frank dialogue among two white women and several women of…
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Grace Lee Boggs, Human Rights Advocate for 7 Decades, Dies at 100 The New York Times 2015-10-05 Robert D. McFadden Ms. Boggs and her husband, James. Credit LeeLee Films, Inc. Grace Lee Boggs, one of the nation’s oldest human rights activists, who waged a war of inspiration for civil rights, labor, feminism, the environment and…