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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The upcoming drama, based on the 1929 novel, looks at the cultural self-alienation a black woman experiences when she attempts to gain the privileges that come with assuming a white identity.
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More recently the concept of frontier has given way to the idea of borders and borderlands, where peoples and cultures have intermingled and interacted. In “Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West,” Anne F. Hyde examines family life in the borderlands; her carefully wrought portrait of five families…
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Charles’s interweaving of the historical and the literary is a welcome addition to this growing field of passing studies.
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And the 2022 Oscar Nominees Should Be… The New York Times 2022-01-14 Illustrations by Ben Denzer If our chief critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott had their way, these are the films and the people who would be up for Academy Awards. Best Picture: Drive My Car, Passing, The Power of The Dog Best Director:…
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Young musicians tell the story of a girl and her music
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Director Rebecca Hall’s recent adaptation of Nella Larsen’s exquisite second novel, Passing (1929), is visually stunning. I had the pleasure of seeing the film on the big screen, during its limited theatrical run and before its Netflix release.
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Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of “Passing” expertly uses the craft of cinema to explore race and colorism from a Black point of view, Imani Perry argues.
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With a remarkable fusion of substance and style, Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel unfolds inner lives along with social crises.
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As the population of mixed-race Japanese—popularly called hāfu—grows, entertainers and athletes with bicultural backgrounds are increasingly prominent. However, most of those considered hāfu in Japan live normal, private lives, struggling daily with curiosity, prejudice, and their own identity conflicts. Whole, a new short film, takes up the issues facing just such people through the story…