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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I’ve been a fly on the wall when white people didn’t know anyone of color was looking or listening.
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This delicately observed portrait of racial dynamics is worth seeing in the cinema
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“I was born a poor Black child.”
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For nearly a decade, the actress-turned-filmmaker tried to get her ambitious Nella Larsen adaptation made. As she tells IndieWire, she knew there was only one way to make it happen.
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Ruth Negga stars in “Passing,” a film which follows two black women living in 1920s New York.
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The actor has just directed her first film, an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel Passing. She discusses the family story that inspired her, cultural appropriation and class in Hollywood
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This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry.
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In this article, I provide a close reading of Season 1 of the neo-Victorian TV series “Carnival Row” as both an ambivalent postcolonial and neo-passing narrative.