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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Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series Weisman Art Museum University of Minnesota 333 East River Road Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (612) 625-9494 2013-02-16 through 2013-05-12 Laylah Ali, Associate Professor of Art Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Join us for a talk with Laylah Ali on March 7, 2013. WAM is pleased to present Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series.…
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60 Ways of Looking at a Black Woman The New York Times 2005-01-23 Edward Lewine Ellen Gallagher dabbed a swirl of gray watercolor onto the delicate pencil drawing she had just sketched of a furry hamster. Late December sunlight radiated through the windows at Two Palms Press, the SoHo printmaking studio where she has spent…
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“Double Natural” Yale University Department of African American Studies 81 Wall St., Gordon Parks Room 201 2013-01-24, 11:45-13:15 EST (Local Time) Ellen Gallagher, Hayden Visiting Artist Yale University Art Gallery Ellen Gallagher breaks the boundaries of traditional art by using materials and found images in unexpected ways. Her work often looks at how African Americans…
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One Drop of Love: Debut Performance Arena Theater California State University, Los Angeles 5151 State University Drive [Directions] [Map] Los Angeles, California 90032 Saturday, 2013-03-09, 20:00 PST (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Jillian Pagan, Director One Drop of Love is a solo show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni that journeys from Jamaica…
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US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey on the legacy of the Civil War The Washington Post 2013-01-30 Ron Charles One hundred and fifty years later, Americans are still fighting the Civil War, US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey said at the Library of Congress on Wednesday. The field of battle is now historical memory, and gatling guns…
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‘Romance of Race’ reveals rich cultural history BGSU News Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, 2013-02-14 A new book by Dr. Jolie Sheffer is further confirmation that one should never doubt the power of the pen. “The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1890-1930,” published in January by Rutgers University Press, explains…
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In this collection of poetry, prose, and personal essay, both new and well-known women authors of mixed race ancestry examine history, culture, and identity using insight from the female psyche.
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Me: A Book of Remembrance University Press of Mississippi 1997 (Originally published in 1915) 368 pages Cloth ISBN: 0878059911 (9780878059911) Paper ISBN: 087805992X (9780878059928) Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) Afterword by: Linda Trinh Moser, Professor of English Missouri State University A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance Ironically, Winnifred…
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The Fictive Flapper: A Way of Reading Race and Female Desire in the Novels of Larsen, Hurst, Hurston and Cather University of Maryland, College Park 2004 391 pages Traci B. Abbott, Lecturer, English and Media Studies Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College…
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Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond HarperCollins 2005 240 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780060761424; ISBN10: 0060761423 Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the…