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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Danzy Senna’s new novel examines the ambivalent privileges of passing.
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The premise of Thrity Umrigar’s new novel, “Everybody’s Son,” is straightforward: a wealthy white family whose son has died adopts a black child from the projects. Through this disturbing yet evocative tale, Umrigar — best known for her books “The Space Between Us” and “The World We Found” — offers a troubling look at race…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research Volume 47, 2017 – Issue 2: After Madiba: Black Studies in South Africa Pages 73-76 DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2017.1295355 Fabian Eggers, MA candidate of North American Studies John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität,…
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Youth and Empire: Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia by David Pomfret (review) The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2017 pages 271-273 Molly J. Giblin, Instructor University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee Youth and Empire: Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia. By David Pomfret. Stanford, CA:…
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“Little Boxes,” a mildly comic story about a biracial family that relocates to an exceedingly white town, feels a bit out of phase, but it’s delicately observed and does a nice job of staying within itself. It avoids the big confrontation or grand statement; doing so allows it to be an effective, if somewhat uneventful,…
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Janie Chang’s second novel, “Dragon Springs Road,” details a landscape of memories, where traditional spiritual beliefs coexist with more modern ways of living.
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Liberals like myself like to embrace and demand diversity, but we often come up with flawed arguments; Fassbinder has taught me that this can backfire with catastrophic consequences – Victor Fraga reflects on the 1974 classic ‘Fear Eats the Soul’, as the film reaches UK cinemas
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Michael Tisserand’s Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, a work of passion and sagacity, not only gives a comprehensive overview of Herriman’s oeuvre but insightfully situates it in personal and socio-cultural context. Krazy Kat is perhaps one of the most lauded newspaper comic strips of all time, and yet this is the…