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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Editorial Observer; Back When Skin Color Was Destiny — Unless You Passed for White The New York Times 2003-09-07 Brent Staples The New Yorker was trying not to speak ill of the dead when it described Anatole Broyard as the ”famously prickly critic for the Times, a man who demanded so much from books that…
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Racial identity: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Anatole Broyard The Globe and Mail 1999-11-23 Robert Fulford For many years, Anatole Broyard of The New York Times was a dashing figure in literary New York, a critic of exceptional charm and wit. He was said to be one of those people who talk spontaneously in well-shaped…
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.
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BEAUTIFUL ANITA HEMMING. STORY OF THE VASSAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROES. The Sacramento Daily Record-Union Friday, 1897-09-24 page 6, columns 1-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. STORY OF THE VASAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROS She Kept the Secret of Her Birth for Years From Her Roommate. This is the story of…
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Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century exhibition, HOME, reviewed by Şima İmşir Parker The Manchester Review Manchester, England May 2016 Şima İmşir Parker, Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Manchester Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century, Home, 30 April 2016 – 3 July 2016 “The melodramatic body is…
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COLORED VASSAR GIRL. The Saint Paul Globe Sunday, 1897-09-05 page 21, column 7 People at Poughkeepsie Thought Miss Hemmings Was a Spaniard. Anita Florence Hemmings, the Boston girl who has stirred up such a sensation by daring to complete a course at exclusive Vassar when she new that there was negro blood in her veins,…
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Uncovering the story of a grandmother’s racial passing and its effect on following generations.
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Hybrid by Robert Wood Mascara Literary Review 2015-10-04 Robert Wood Robert Wood grew up in a multicultural household in Perth. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a National Undergraduate Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow respectively. He has edited for Margaret River Press, Wild Dingo…
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“White Enough to Pass”: Uncovering the story of John Wesley Gibson underbelly: From the Deepest Corners of the Maryland Historical Society Library 2016-01-21 Excerpt from William Still’s 1872 book, The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, & c., Narrating the Hardships Hair-breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts…
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Book Launch: A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs The Powerhouse Arena 37 Main Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Telephone: 718.666.3049 Wednesday 2016-06-15, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Focusing on individuals and their experiences, Allyson Hobbs examines how racial passing became both a strategy for survival and an avenue…