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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Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal to receive lifetime achievement award CTV News 2015-02-05 The Canadian Press TORONTO — As Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal prepares to receive a lifetime achievement award, she remembers what originally inspired her to begin acting more than 40 years ago: anger. “It wasn’t about a career at all — it was about…
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An Open Letter to the White Fathers of Black Daughters bluestockings magazine 2015-02-23 Kelsey Henry I have been drafting this letter since I was ten. I am twenty and tonight is the first night I will write these words outside of me. I don’t know what they will look like here. Honestly, I am scared…
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Memories of Metis Women of Saint-Eustache, Manitoba — (1910-1980) Oral History Forum/Forum d’histoire orale Volumes 19-20 (1999-2000) pages 90-111 Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Introductory Comments In an article entitled “Hired Men: Ontario Agricultural Wage Labour in Historical Perspective” Joy Parr wrote the following, telling, words: Scholars too have claimed that from the…
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“Charcoal and Cinnamon” explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities.
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EXCLUSIVE: Meet Hip-Hop’s Next Big Thing Nitty Scott, MC Latina 2015-02-13 Raquel Reichard If you’re a hip-hop fan, you may already be familiar with the genre’s latest heavy hitter: Nitty Scott, MC. This year alone the half-Puerto Rican, half-African American artist has been called the next big MC and a woman you should know. And…
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The mixed-race girl’s guide to the art of passing: racial simulations in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Florida Atlantic University May 2014 65 pages Gyasi S. Byng A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of…
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The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis. A Narrative Biography Esquiline Hill Press 2012 567 pages (est.) mobi ISBN: 978-1-58863-450-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-58863-451-1 ePub ISBN: 978-1-58863-452-8 Harry Henderson Albert Henderson Edmonia Lewis was the first famous “colored sculptor” and the first to idealize her African and American Indian heritages in stone. She flourished from 1864 through…
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Tracee Ellis Ross: ‘That Hurt Like the Bejesus’ The New York Times 2015-01-22 Tracee Ellis Ross Credit Pej Behdarvand for The New York Times The actress talks with Jenna Wortham about defining her own sense of beauty and humor. It’s awards-show season. Do you like going to the shows? I didn’t actually go to the…