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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Amrita Hepi interview Time Out Sydney 2015-05-24 Dee Jefferson, Arts & Culture Editor Sydney knows – and loves – Amrita for her Hollaback nights and Beyoncé dance classes, but her latest project is far more fierce Amrita Hepi was in the final creative phase of her dance-theatre work Passing, with New Zealand-born dancer and spoken-word…
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Skinship: Dialectical Passing Plots in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative American Literary Realism Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2014 pages 116-136 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut Racial definitions were in crisis within the U.S. during the mid-nineteenth century, with the country moving closer and closer to a Civil…
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Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film University of Minnesota Press 2007 200 pages 24 b&w photos, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-3412-5 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-3411-8 Cindy Patton, Canada Research Chair in Community Culture and Health Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Though largely forgotten today, the 1949 film Pinky had a significant…
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Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins Broadview Press 2016-05-04 (Originally Published in 1894) 304 pages 5½” x 8½” Paperback ISBN: 9781554812660 Mark Twain Edited by: Hsuan L. Hsu, Associate Professor of English University of California, Davis The two narratives published together in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins are…
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Racial Passing in American Life The Hill Center Washington, D.C. 2016-05-10 Lisa Page, Director of Creative Writing at The George Washington University, and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, #Passing, moderates a discussion with Dr. Allyson Hobbs. Hobbs is an assistant professor of American history at Stanford University. She is the author of A Chosen Exile:…
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Dying to Be Black: White-to-Black Racial Passing in Chesnutt’s “Mars Jeems’s Nightmare,” Griffin’s Black Like Me, and Van Peebles’s Watermelon Man Prospects Volume 28 / October 2004 pages 519-542 DOI: 10.1017/S0361233300001599 Baz Dreisinger, Associate Professor of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Is racial passing passé? Not according to…
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Long Time Passing Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2009-01-23 Amy Finnerty Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). How black is Eminem? How white is our president? We can’t help asking these awkward questions as we digest “Near Black,” by Baz Dreisinger. A freelance journalist…
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The “Highly Important Matter of Clothes”: Apparel and Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Fringe: The Noun That Verbs Your World Issue 19, Summer 2009 (2009-07-19) Kaley Joyes Nella Larsen’s novel Quicksand (1928) is saturated with clothing. This essay examines the ways in which Larsen uses fashionable apparel to map connections between racial identity and aesthetic…
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Paperback Row Book Review The New York Times 2016-04-29 Joumana Khatib Seven new paperbacks to check out this week… …A CHOSEN EXILE: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, by Allyson Hobbs. (Harvard University, $16.95.) People who chose to “pass” were intentionally clandestine and left few clues of their histories, but here, Hobbs, a…