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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Southern civility turns savage when Hank Whitaker’s dying words reveal the unimaginable. No one—not his socialite wife, Maggie, or young son, Lance—ever suspected the successful businessman, husband, and father they knew and loved was a black man passing for white.
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Using critical race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Zélie Asava traces the history of mixed-race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day.
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This article explores Black Twitter’s response to Dolezal’s “outing” as a White woman with particular emphasis on the #AskRachel hashtag, to which users posted a series of questions intended to discern Dolezal’s “true” racial identity.
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Talking the Talk: Linguistic Passing in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2017 pages 156-176 Melissa Dennihy, Assistant Professor of English Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, Bayside, New York Danzy Senna’s 1998 novel Caucasia, set in 1970s New England, follows the breakup of the…
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Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College.
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Two African American sisters grow up in racially charged 1960s Georgia, but one is born with fair skin. And when schools integrate in their small town, she decides to change her destiny – by passing for white.
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In her novel New People, Danzy Senna relishes kicking political correctness to the curb. She believes that irony and humor are more effective than earnestness when writing about race and gender.
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Each of my siblings’ names, skin, hair, and religious observances earned us different levels of privilege.
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A review of “In Full Color” by Rachel Doležal. BenBella Books, Dallas, Texas (April 2017) 282 pages.
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With “Hopeless Fountain Kingdom,” the queen of New Americana is more outspoken than ever. Here, she covers everything from donating $100,000 to Planned Parenthood to the virtues of the dad bod.