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: Autobiography
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Kelly McWilliams is the author of the upcoming “Mirror Girls,” a novel about sisterhood and passing.
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The American movie industry has a long, problematic history with stories about racial passing. But the actor-writer-director Rebecca Hall is trying to tell a new kind of story.
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“What Is The Emotional Legacy Of A Life Lived In Hiding?” Rebecca Hall Honours Her Family’s History In Her New Film Passing Vogue UK 2021-10-29 Rebecca Hall Molly Cranna For her directorial debut, the British actor brings to life the novel that helped unlock the meaning of her family’s heritage. The elucidation of a family’s…
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Film Screening with Director Ines Johnson-Spain in Attendance: “Becoming Black” Black Germans2021-11-17 Sponsored by Waterloo Centre for German, German at University of Toronto, and Africana Studies at Rutgers University-CamdenNovember 17, 2021 SYNOPSIS: Becoming Black (dir. Ines Johnson-Spain, 2019, 91 min.): In the 1960s, the East German Sigrid falls in love with Lucien from Togo, one of several African…
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London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s—as seen through the eyes of a former slave
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Ruth Negga has given the subject of identity a lot of thought.
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Our ongoing All Black Lives Matter event series is pleased to invite you to a film screening of Ines Johnson-Spain’s autobiographical documentary “Becoming Black”(2019).
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Anne Liu Kellor with Kristen Millares Young — Heart Radical Third Place Books EventsThird Place Books2021-10-01 Kristen Millares Young, Host On September 28th, 2021, Third Place Books was honored to host Anne Liu Kellor for the release of her debut memoir, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging. She will be joined in…