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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Anomaly dir. by Jessica Chen Drammeh (review) African Studies Review Volume 57, Number 3, December 2014 pages 274-275 Manouchka Kelly Labouba, USC Provost’s PhD Fellow Critical Studies School of Cinematic Arts University of Southern California Anomaly is a personal documentary featuring mixed-raced people who discuss the complexities and challenges of defining their identity across the different…
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present by Jeffrey Lesser (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 45, Number 3, Winter 2015 pages 449-451 Samuel L. Baily, Professor Emeritus of History Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jeffrey Lesser, Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present (Cambridge,…
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‘Who We Be,’ by Jeff Chang Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2014-12-12 Tricia Rose, Director Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Who We Be: The Colorization of America. By Jeff Chang. Illustrated. 403 pp. St. Martin’s Press. $32.99. The dramatic changes spurred by the…
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‘Pelo Malo’ Is A Rare Look Into Latin American Race Relations Morning Edition National Public Radio 2014-12-10 Jasmine Garsd, Reporter and Host NPR Music’s Alt.Latino Actor Samuel Lange Zambrano plays Junior, a boy who becomes obsessed with relaxing his hair. Courtesy of the artist “Pelo Malo” means “bad hair” in Spanish. It’s a term that…
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New doc on Shadeism doesn’t make the cut Mixed In Canada 2014-12-08 Rema Tavares Debuting November 10th, 2014 on the CBC’s free preview on their documentary channel, Hue: A Matter of Colour opens with the narrator and main subject, Vic Sarin, discussing his relationship to his mixed-race family (or if anything lack thereof). This movie,…
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Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy J. Sparks, and: Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment (review) Journal of the Early Republic Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2014 pages 686-690 DOI: 10.1353/jer.2014.0068 Andrew N. Wegmann…
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Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories ed. by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Christina Gomez (review) Journal of College Student Development Volume 55, Number 8, November 2014 pages 856-858 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2014.0077 Jessica C. Harris Andrew Garrod, Christina Gómez, and Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013)…
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A Profound Documentary, Little White Lie Follows a Woman’s Search for Her Identify The Village Voice New York, New York 2014-11-26 Diana Clarke In Woodstock, New York, at the end of the 20th century, Lacey Schwartz was raised in an affluent Jewish household where something was slightly off. Darker-skinned than her mother and father, Schwartz…