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 Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [von Germeten] The Americas Volume 72, Number 1, January 2015 pages 159-160 Nicole von Germeten, Associate Professor of History Oregon State University Rappaport, Joanne, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Durham: Duke University…
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San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) July 2014 Amy De Simone, Research Consultant Kansas State University by Robert J. Chandler. University of Oklahoma Press, February 2014. 264 p. ill. ISBN 9780806144108 (cl.), $36.95. More than just a book about one man, San Francisco Lithographer: African…
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Imagining a future where racial reassignment surgery is the norm Quartz 2014-09-27 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Communications Professor University of Southern California, Annenberg Jess Row’s haunting new novel, Your Face In Mine, is an invitation to the future, an era bound only by the limits of imagination, money, and technology. It’s a time when you can…
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BLACK AND WHITE vs BLACK OR WHITE: Bioethics and Mixed Race Families September Williams’ Bioethics Screen Reflections: Film, Television, and Media Critiques Relevant to Bioethics 2015-03-01 September Williams, MD Black and White, screened at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and later at the Mill Valley Film Festival, in October 2014. The same title was also…
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Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production by Crystal S. Anderson (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 18, Number 1, February 2015 pages 107-109 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2015.0003 Edlie Wong, Associate Professor of English University of Maryland Anderson, Crystal S., Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013). Afro-Asian…
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The Lazy Storytelling of ‘Black or White’: Love and Justice Are Not Colorblind Christ and Pop Culture (CAPC) 2015-02-11 D. L. Mayfield I was at a writing retreat once where a bunch of us gathered together to talk about how to write well about social justice issues in our world. A young singer-songwriter with a…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era [Tejada Review] Washington Independent Review of Books 2015-01-15 Susan Tejada When a Crescent City toddler goes missing, the tensions of the post-Civil War South are exposed. Ross, Michael A., The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the…
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Dear Hollywood: Let’s Stop Making Movies Like “Black or White” Forbes 2015-01-30 Rebecca Theodore Halfway through the family drama “Black Or White,” Jeremiah Jeffers (Anthony Mackie) an Ivy-League educated lawyer, chastises his drug addict nephew Reggie (Andre Holland) in the midst of helping him regain custody of his daughter by asking, “Why do you have…
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Review: Nuance-Deprived “Race” Movie ‘Black or White’ is Actually About White Frustration (Opens Friday) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-01-27 Zeba Blay “Black or White” opens nationwide this Friday, January 30, via Relativity… Is it any wonder that a movie as lazily titled as “Black or White” fails to actually tackle…