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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QUALLEN: Healy’s Inner Turmoil, Our Current Conflict The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2015-11-20 Matthew Quallen, “Hoya Historian” School of Foreign Service Last week, President DeGioia accepted a recommendation to scrub the names Mulledy and McSherry from university buildings. The names Freedom and Remembrance took their places. Mulledy and McSherry symbolized what was most odious…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2016-02-15, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History…
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With “Symptomatic,” the follow-up to her acclaimed debut novel “Caucasia,” Danzy Senna again delves into race in America — and defies second-book syndrome
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Black like her: Is racial identity a state of mind? The Washington Post 2015-06-16 Amy Ellis Nutt, Reporter While people continue to question the motivations behind former NAACP official Rachel Dolezal’s claiming she is black, scientists say identity, even racial identity, doesn’t arise from any single place in the brain. Individuals contain different selves, often…
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On this episode of BackStory, the Guys will consider how and why Americans throughout the centuries have crossed the lines of racial identity, and find out what the history of passing has to say about race, identity, and privilege in America.
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BBC World TV Interview Re Rachel Dolezal & Passing Marcia Dawkins 2015-06-12 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Arts and Humanities The Minerva Schools at KGI, San Francisco, California Dr. Dee chatted roadside with BBC World News about the firestorm raging around Rachel Dolezal, the white Spokane, Washington NAACP leader who allegedly passes as black.
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Quicksand and Passing – Nella Larsen The Writes of Woman: Reviews of books by female writers 2015-11-24 Naomi Frisby Quicksand and Passing are two novellas packaged together and reissued by Serpent’s Tale in the UK. They both share the key theme of being a woman of colour in America early in the twentieth century but…
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BEST OF 2015: Not Quite White Madison365 Madison, Wisconsin 2015-12-29 Matthew Braunginn Matthew Braunginn I may never be able to truly “pass” or to be “race neutral.” I have always been and always will be “not quite white.” I reject those terms because I have been othered on their terms. I can never fully fit…