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: Book/Video Reviews
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Catherine Johnson, in her recent novel for the young adult audience, The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo, clearly does know what it is like to be a woman, and she shows in her eponymous character a vulnerable, poor, mixed race girl in Britain’s early 19th century who rises above the situation in which she…
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I’m almost inclined to embark on this review with just one word: discuss.
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When Krystal Sital’s grandfather Shiva Singh suffers a cerebral hemorrhage, her grandmother Rebecca, after 53 years of marriage, reacts with calm indifference. Sital, who reveres her tall, strong and generous grandfather, with his white hair and “skin the color of a sapphire sky,” spends much of her suspenseful memoir, “Secrets We Kept: Three Women of…
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It is a question I haven’t been asked in decades; I hoped it had died out along with the idea that Black and British was an oxymoron. Afua Hirsch’s “Brit(ish),” however, finds it still tripping out of people’s mouths, as the most “persistent reminder of that sense of not belonging”.
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Lucy Parsons occupies an unusual position in American history: a prominent woman noted as much for her acts of brilliance and bravery as for her evasiveness and contradictions.
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Passing and Being Passed Over in the United States Los Angeles Review of Books 2017-12-15 Kavita Das We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America By Brando Skyhorse, Lisa Page Published 10.10.2017 Beacon Press 216 Pages IN THE YEARS preceding the 2016 presidential election, the “birther” movement that had dogged Barack Obama…
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A lot has changed, and largely because of the work of Annette Gordon-Reed, who took seriously Hemings family stories and, bolstered by a DNA study, convinced nearly all scholars, including Kerrison, that Brodie was correct. “Jefferson’s Daughters,” Kerrison’s beautifully written book, takes the relationship’s existence as a given.
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The acclaimed writer’s 14th novel is a nuanced story of racial identity set in postwar Australia
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But even as we have blurred racial lines in ways scarcely imaginable when “The Souls of Black Folk” appeared in 1903, we still have our clear-cut demarcations. And in many ways, lines of color, alongside the complexities of what it means to pass as one thing or another, may be what best defines Danzy Senna’s…
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In this paper, I will address how this story manages to transcend a generation and how the narrative was changed to accommodate a postwar audience. I will also discuss how the movie industry affected the production and marketing of “Imitation of Life” at the cusp of the tumultuous 1960s.