Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: Judaism
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Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood Indiana University Press 2014-08-01 286 pages 31 b&w illus. 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-253-01319-4 Keren R. McGinity, Author-Educator Love & Tradition: intermarriage insights for a Jewish future When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are “lost” to the Jewish religion. In…
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“Little White Lie”: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White Madame Noire 2014-08-04 Veronica Wells Most of us know from a very early age that we’re Black. It happens so early that many of us can’t remember a specific conversation or moment where we learned this truth. But that wasn’t the…
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Little White Lie,’ Lacey Schwartz’s Film About Self-Discovery
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Little White Lie [Philadelphia Premiere] Blackstar Film Festival Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-31-07 through 2014-08-03 International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Telephone: 215-387-5125 2014-08-02, 15:10 EDT (Local Time) Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer Followed by Q&A with Lacey Schwartz and Mehret Mandefro moderated by: Yaba Blay, Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University,…
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Little White Lie OTB Productions LLC 2013 66 minutes Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer James Adolphus, Co-Director What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her…
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Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America New York University Press February 2009 325 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814757307 Paper ISBN: 9780814764343 Keren R. McGinity, Author-Educator Love & Tradition: intermarriage insights for a Jewish future Over the last century, American Jews married outside their religion at increasing rates. By closely examining the intersection…
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Geraldo Rivera: On Being Jew-Rican, A Rare Mixed Breed Fox News Latino 2014-05-16 Geraldo Rivero, Senior Correspondent Fox News (From my speech May 14, 2014 at The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Women’s Philanthropy luncheon) I’d like to talk about being Jewish in a Puerto Rican family by telling you the story of my…
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Mixed Feelings North by Northwestern Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication Evanston, Illinois 2014-05-22 Sarah Turbin, Class 0f 2016 Medill School of Journalism There’s no question quite like it. “What are you?” has trailed behind me my whole life, tapping me on the shoulder with a different lilt to its tone each time: curious, doubtful,…
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Black & Jewish in New Orleans BrassyBrown.com: where women of color are first in line 2014-04-01 Marian Moore, Guest Blogger December of 2013 found me in San Diego, California this year, attending the fiftieth Biennial of the Women of Reform Judaism. Although, this was the organization’s centennial, WRJ actually began at my synagogue in 1900 as…
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New Contenders Emerge in Quest to Identify Yale’s First African-American Graduate The New York Times 2014-03-16 Ariel Kaminer For Richard Henry Green, recently declared to have been Yale College’s first known African-American graduate, fame, or at least the certainty of his claim on history, was fleeting. Just last month, an Americana specialist at the Swann…