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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Having come through some difficult times as a teenager Kira now happily identifies with both of her cultural backgrounds. Annina says that when you are ‘mixed-race’ people make assumptions about your identity and consider it to be “up for debate”, but she is clear that “whiteness is not something I’m a part of.”
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Brian Bantum on Redeeming Mulatto Homebrewed Christianity 2014-08-17 Bo Sanders Brian Bantum teaches theology at Seattle Pacific University out in the mighty Northwest. This spring when he and Callid were both at the Christian Leadership Forum of FTE they sat down to talk about Brian’s book Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity.…
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First Listen: Alabama Shakes, ‘Sound & Color’ First Listen National Public Radio 2015-04-12 Ann Powers, NPR Music Critic The Alabama Shakes’ new album, Sound & Color, comes out April 21. Brantley Gutierrez/Courtesy of the artist In the six years I’ve lived in the region, I’ve developed a mantra: Southern freaks are the best freaks. For…
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The Family Secret in the Mirror The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC 93.9 FM New York, New York Monday, 2015-03-23 Brian Lehrer, Host Lacey Schwartz wins the documentary section prize for her documentary work-in-progress, ‘Outside The Box’ at the TAA Awards during the 5th Annual Tribeca Film Festival. (Mat Szwajkos/Getty) Raised as a white Jewish kid…
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Lacey Schwartz Unearths Family Secrets in ‘Little White Lie’ KCRW 89.9 MHz FM Santa Monica, California 2015-04-13 Kim Masters, Host Kaitlin Parker, Producer Lacey Schwartz grew up thinking she was white. When her college labeled her a black student based on a photograph, she knew she had to get some explanations from her family. Those…
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The Remix: Dr. Yaba Blay on Colorism, Kendrick Lamar & Trevor Noah The Remix with Dr. James Peterson WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-04-01 James Braxton Peterson, Host and Associate professor of English Lehigh University, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Comedy Central has named South African comedian Trevor Noah to helm “The Daily Show” when John Stewart departs…
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Family Secret And Cultural Identity Revealed In ‘Little White Lie’ Morning Edition National Public Radio 2015-03-23 Michele Norris, Host and Special Correspondent Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a white Jewish family in Woodstock, New York, believing she was white. Schwartz learns she’s bi-racial as she prepares to attend college. Listen to the story here.…
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Allan Wolper Talks to Lacey Schwartz Conversations with Allan Wolper WBGO 88.3 FM Newark, New Jersey 2015-03-16 Allan Wolper, Professor of Journalism Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock,…