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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Because the 19th-century college president appeared white, he was able to climb the ladder of the Jesuit community
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We all know what identity theft is, in a world filled with cyber crimes. We’ve all watched horror films with body snatchers as the main villains. Things become far more complicated when we address the issue of humans who, for a host of warped reasons, assume a false racial or ethnic identity.
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How do we prevent another Jessica Krug or Rachel Dolezal? Here are some solutions! YouTube 2020-09-05 Dr. Chi [Chinyere K. Osuji], Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden What the video (00:15:11) here.
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The revelation in fall 2020 that Jessica Krug, a white American woman, just like Rachel Dolezal before her, spent years holding herself out as Black and Black Latina woman made us all cringe.
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Jessica A. Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, said she’s claimed a Black identity throughout her career.
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To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness.
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Written in 1929 but still pertinent to this day, Nella Larsen’s Passing centres around two biracial women, and explores racial identity, racism, and white privilege –significant concerns which have been propelled after the surge of global support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Bennett’s compelling novel explores the fraught subject of what it means to ‘pass for white’ in a black community
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In this paper, I argue that Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia “is a satirical passing narrative that exposes the tragedy of traditional passing novels as archaic for relying on racial binaries and perpetuating white desirability.
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The US author on topping the bestseller charts with her new novel, why being right is overrated, and the TV show bringing her joy in lockdown