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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A superbly performed study of racialized longing and feminine dissatisfaction in 1920s New York, lit by searing intelligence and compassion.
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Finding oneself in ‘Surviving the White Gaze’ The Boston Globe 2021-01-28 Blaise Allysen Kearsley, Globe Correspondent Judith Rudd for The Boston Globe Surviving The White Gaze: A Memoir By Rebecca Carroll Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $26 The core function of tween- and teen-hood is the lofty job of figuring out who we are, as…
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I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.
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Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy [Smith Review] The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research Volume 50, (Winter 2020) – Issue 4: Black Girlhood pages 86-88 DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2020.1811610 Justin Smith, Ph.D. candidate in English and African American Pennsylvania State University Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and…
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Written in 1929 but still pertinent to this day, Nella Larsen’s Passing centres around two biracial women, and explores racial identity, racism, and white privilege –significant concerns which have been propelled after the surge of global support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Bennett’s compelling novel explores the fraught subject of what it means to ‘pass for white’ in a black community
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Erika Denise Edward’s new book, is both innovative as well as firmly grounded in the rich tradition of scholarship that illuminates the manifold processes, policies, sites, and situations in which notions of whiteness were negotiated, reified, and contested across the New World.
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In her new novel, “The Vanishing Half,” Brit Bennett brings to the form a new set of provocative questions: What if passing goes unpunished? What if the character is never truly found out? What if she doesn’t die or repent? What then?
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In “The Vanishing Half,” the story of two sisters divided by the color line yields new models of identity and authenticity.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, who belongs to the hip-hop generation of multiculturalism and diversity, is willing to risk being a throwback in his memoir/essay “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”