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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Here’s how to navigate passing and belonging as a multiracial person.
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Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut is an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel “Passing,” a theme little seen since the likes of “Show Boat” and “Pinky”
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EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall has set up “Passing,” an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a member of one racial group who seeks to be accepted by a different racial group.
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“Converse, Converse” is a two-channel video installation that creates a virtual conversation between family members who have never met.
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EXCLUSIVE: It’s a great story that delves into the caste system, racism and sexism. The Rhinelander Affair, written by William Kinsolving, follows the controversial 1925 divorce trial in New York involving a man from an upper-class New Rochelle family who married a bi-racial, working-class woman. It is a ripped from the headlines story from the…
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Genevieve Gaignard uses American stereotypes and comfortable settings to confront uncomfortable issues surrounding race and identity.
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While more and more celebrities like Halle Berry, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, Sade, Drake, Vin Diesel, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are celebrating their multicultural heritage today, this was not always the case — particularly those black celebrities who could “pass” for white.
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Black-Asian Counterintimacies: Reading Sui Sin Far in Jamaica J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2018 pages 197-204 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2018.0015 Christine “Xine” Yao, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English University of British Columbia In “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian,” Edith Maude Eaton, writing as Sui Sin Far, reflects…
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But I also have sympathy for Dolezal. I know what it’s like to turn your back on the white side of your family.