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: Passing
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By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Alisha Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society.
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I therefore turned with pleasure to Alisha Gaines’s thoughtful book, Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, which joins a slim list of studies of “‘passing, in reverse'”: the phenomenon of white people who pass for and sometimes claim to become black (p. 17).
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American novelist Danzy Senna draws on her experience growing up in an interracial family in her edgy, prize-winning fiction. In her latest novel, “New People,” she writes with insight and subversive humour about what it means to be half-black and half-white.
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“Whiteness” in America is not and has never been self-evident – and that is the point of passing: of not revealing information that would reposition someone from “being white” to “not quite white” or “not white” at all.
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Passing for White in THE GREAT GATSBY: A Spectroscopic Analysis of Jordan Baker The Explicator Volume 76, 2018 – Issue 3 Published online: 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.1080/00144940.2018.1489769 Tom Phillips New York, New York “Jordan’s fingers, powdered white over their tan, rested for a moment in mine.” Early in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick…
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Michael Tisserand: “Krazy Kat and the Poetics of Passing” | Talks at Google Talks at Google 2018-06-26 Michael discusses his book, “Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and White,” winner of the 2017 Eisner Award for best comics-related book, and a finalist in both the National Book Critics Circle Awards for Biography and the…
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Actor Indigo Griffiths started writing to address the lack of roles for mixed-race performers. She tells Giverny Masso about her first full-length play, “Passing,” which is to receive a rehearsed reading on a West End stage as part of the Masterclass Trust’s Pitch Your Play competition.