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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A compelling and timely debut novel from an assured new voice: Three-Fifths is about a biracial black man, passing for white, who is forced to confront the lies of his past while facing the truth of his present when his best friend, just released from prison, involves him in a hate crime.
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Literature has given us light-skinned blacks who “passed” as white, from famed critic Anatole Broyard to figures in the poetry of Pittsburgh-based poet Toi Derricotte. Ms. Valentine’s story is something else again.
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All his life, people have assumed the theatre director is mixed race – and he was happy to embrace that identity. Then he was accused of faking it
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“I photograph myself to talk about how we navigate through the world and how others see us.”
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Today, the persona he created opens up a dialogue about race, fame, and surprising flexibility of truth.
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This dissertation focuses on how racial passing can be a critical strategy for defining and validating a nuanced conceptualization of blackness in twenty-first century African-American Literature.
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Extensive in its research, “A Chosen Exile” includes eighty-two pages of supplementary end notes and critical commentary that offer readers an in-depth perspective on the American racial landscape, the politics of passing (from a cultural and intra-personal lens), and the notion of loss so vital to a history still prevalent.
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this study examines the Afrofuturist sensibilities in these two key works of the Harlem Renaissance era and present day to understand how such authors not only counter the troubling histories of their time but also propose counter-futures that would otherwise have been buried beneath the cultural oppression of Jim Crow and other more modern forms…
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The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.
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Exploration of womanhood inspires painter