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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Daniel, G. Reginald. Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2012. Print. [McNee Review] ellipsis (now Journal of Lusophone Studies) Volume 13 (2015) pages 255-257 Malcolm K. McNee, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the…
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G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 338, \$74.95, hb. [Gledson Review] Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 47 / Issue 03 / August 2015 pages 607-608 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X15000528 John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool G. Reginald Daniel,…
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‘Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings’ reimagines difficult history The Chicago Tribune 2016-07-23 Meredith Maran “Until the lions have their own historians,” says an African proverb, “the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” The proverb offers one answer to a question that has long plagued writers, activists and historians. Who gets to…
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Crucifying the White Savior (Film) Shadow and Act 2016-06-29 Andre Seewood We no longer have to forgive them, for they know exactly what they are doing. The new film by Gary Ross, “The Free State of Jones” is uncontestably a White savior film. Laid bare, “The Free State of Jones” is a simplistically constructed tale…
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The Faux-Enlightened Free State of Jones The Atlantic 2016-06-28 Vann R. Newkirk II STX Productions Matthew McConaughey’s new movie is a predictable but instructive journey of white saviorhood. “Somehow, some way, and some time, everybody is somebody else’s nigger,” is an actual quote that happens around midway through Free State of Jones. Uttered by Matthew…
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Black and White in the Free State of Jones Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-14 Nina Silber, Professor of History Boston University I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of Jones. Not out of any disrespect toward the excellent historical scholarship behind the film, including Victoria Bynum’s…
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Colorblindness is not Progressive: a Review of “The Color of Water” The Tempest 2016-06-11 Maya Williams We should make it clear that the concept of colorblindness isn’t just a white perspective to have or to talk about. The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother (1995) tells the story of a…