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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Writer and reporter Ken Coleman tells the story of Detroiter Elsie Roxborough, who was born into a wealthy, Black family in Detroit. But when she died in 1939, her death certificate listed her as white.
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“Unknowingly, I started to reject all of the parts of myself that were Black.”
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he key question posed herein is: What forms of privilege enable a reader to relinquish her attachment to paranoia, suspicion, and vigilance; to opt for openness rather than guardedness, submission rather than aggression (21)? Narratives of racial passing provide one answer to that question.
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The upcoming drama, based on the 1929 novel, looks at the cultural self-alienation a black woman experiences when she attempts to gain the privileges that come with assuming a white identity.
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Uncovering Family Secrets: Forming a New Identity Los Angeles Public Library Blog Los Angeles Public Library Los Angeles, California 2022-03-07 Janice Batzdorff, Librarian Imagine discovering that the man who raised you is not your biological father. That your mother’s race differs from how she presented herself. That the person you are attracted to is your…
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Charles’s interweaving of the historical and the literary is a welcome addition to this growing field of passing studies.
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Librarian Louise Butler Walker ’35 took desperate measures to survive in a racist society.
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