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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In this paper, I will address how this story manages to transcend a generation and how the narrative was changed to accommodate a postwar audience. I will also discuss how the movie industry affected the production and marketing of “Imitation of Life” at the cusp of the tumultuous 1960s.
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Yet, in this flurry of publications, Allyson Hobbs’s A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, is a valuable contribution that distinguishes itself as the first full-length historical monograph to comprehensively tackle and complicate this sensitive and emotionally charged topic.
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This article examines James McBride’s National Book Award–winning novel The Good Lord Bird (2013) as an example of both posthistorical fiction and postracial passing.
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Why we shouldn’t let white people police who gets to be “white”.
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However, white passing privilege is not the same as white privilege. People who are white passing are considered so because they contradict the narrow racial stereotypes perpetuated by white people, and, as Niloufar Haidari notes, these “borders of whiteness are policed often in self-interest rather than out of genuine attempts by inclusivity.”
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Shortly after keynote speaker Lacey Schwartz took to the podium, she made an emphatic statement: “Tell the truth about things that are hard to tell the truth about.” If that had been the case, her life would have been less complicated, and she would have known far sooner exactly who she was.
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Do Not Pass Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2010-02-16 Touré This may come as a shock to you, especially if you look at whiteness as a boon and blackness as a burden, but I have never once wished to be white. If a fairy godfather came to me and said I could switch…
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Rachel Dolezal has a line of homemade lollipops.
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Check out the post interview to People Guess Who is White In a Group of People.