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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Mixed-Race Melodrama: Métisse Dr Zélie Asava: Rethinking Representation 2020-12-14 Zélie Asava, Academic. Speaker. Author. Métisse [Mixed-Race] (Kassovitz, France, 1993) adheres to the ethics of beur cinema by reimagining the French nuclear family as black, mixed and white through its central characters. As a pioneering work it is flawed but, by directly engaging with issues of…
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Rebecca Hall’s Passing Says The Most In The Silences Elle 2021-11-12 Christine Jean-Baptiste Montréal, Quebec Passing opens on a busy street in 1920s New York. A mysterious woman (Tessa Thompson) is roaming through Manhattan. In this part of town, she anxiously hides behind a wide-brimmed hat covering half her face. It’s every bit intentional. When…
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What To Know About the Novel Passing Before Watching the Netflix Movie TIME 2021-11-12 Cady Lang In Passing, the film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal 1929 novel of the same name, two women reckon with who they are and how they identify. Although both are Black, they are light-skinned enough that they can “pass” for…
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Commentary and Book Review: Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development Volume 34, Issue 1 (Spring 2021) pages 1-11 Jasmine Mitchell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Media Studies State University of New York, Old Westbury Can a drop of whiteness or “looking white” save someone from…
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In Rebecca Hall’s film, Nella Larsen’s story comes to life in black and white.
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‘Passing’ — the original 1929 novel — is disturbingly brilliant Book Reviews National Public Radio 2021-11-10 Carole V. Bell The one thing most people know about Nella Larsen’s Passing is that it explores a peculiar kind of deception — being born into one marginalized racial category and slipping into another, for privilege, security, or power.…
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As a biracial woman, Lauren Russell examines her history in “Descent” through many mirrors, from both personal and cultural memories, and through prose, verse, and historical documents, to better understand herself. The title itself suggests a delving, a digging into, and we join Russell as she explores her family’s past like a new land, like…
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Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel continues the author’s exploration of the suffocating strictures of the color line.
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Hall’s directing debut stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as friends who are both ‘passing’ for what they are not in an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel