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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Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy [Smith Review] The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research Volume 50, (Winter 2020) – Issue 4: Black Girlhood pages 86-88 DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2020.1811610 Justin Smith, Ph.D. candidate in English and African American Pennsylvania State University Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and…
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Brit Bennett – Colorism & Racial Passing in “The Vanishing Half” | The Daily Social Distancing Show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah 2020-12-03 Brit Bennett talks about exploring the effects of colorism in Black communities and the ability to pass as white in her new novel “The Vanishing Half.” Watch the interview here.
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We concluded the semester with Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s “Incognegro,” a graphic novel that breaks down constructs of race and highlights the ways that society, especially those who want to maintain power, constructs one’s identity.
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Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective reckoning with that injustice.
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“Growing up in New Orleans,” you told me later, “it would be impossible to see race as anything but socially constructed. But that doesn’t mean it’s not real.”
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That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing University of North Carolina Press October 2020 242 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 1 fig Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5957-2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5956-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5958-9 Julia S. Charles, Assistant Professor of English Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.…
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“Passing for white never left.”
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Passing for white was an intentional strategy that enslaved people used to free themselves from bondage
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Because She Can: The Unbearable Whiteness of Jessie The Crisis 2020-09-09 TaRessa Stovall I’m a mixed (Black, Jewish, Native American) boomer, very light-skinned and so racially ambiguous looking that most people question, assume and try to challenge my racial identity. My copper-toned Black father hated that I wouldn’t exploit my appearance to “be anything.” My…
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White supremacy rears its head again in another form of passing, as men and women who have grown up as white children in white families have taken to masquerading as Black adults in order to achieve personal success as race warriors. Jessica Krug and Rachel Dolezal, two sisters-in-deceit, both manipulated their ways to success by…