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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From Necessity to Possibility: Postmodern and Heideggerian Aspects of Passing and Identity in Early African American Novels From 1853 to 1912 Sage Open October-December 2015 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1177/2158244015618234 Charles Cullum Department of English Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts This article applies theories of fragmented postmodern identity and Heidegger’s modes of existence and concept of…
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Hell-Roaring Mike We’re History 2015-12-03 James M. O’Toole, Clough Professor of History Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts Captain Healy aboard the Revenue Cutter Bear, with his pet parrot, c.1895. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard) The Coast Guard icebreaker Healy is back in its home port of Seattle after four months at sea. On…
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Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival 2015-12-18 Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and community. It was, as Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and a leap into another. Her work explores the way this racial…
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Forward Passes The New York Review of Books 2015-12-17 Darryl Pinckney Loving Day by Mat Johnson; Spiegel and Grau, 287 pp., $26.00 The importing of human beings into the US from Africa to be sold as slaves was outlawed in 1808, after which the slave markets of the southern states traded in black people born…
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Do White-Passing People of Color Have Privilege? Everyday Feminism 2015-09-07 Marina Watanabe Today I’m going to be answering a question from one of my Patreon patrons (which sounds really redundant) about being a person of color who happens to be white-passing. Before I start this, I want to explain the concept of white-passing. It basically…
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New book ‘A Chosen Exile’ WREG-TV Memphis, Tennessee 2015-12-17 For nearly 200 years, countless African-Americans chose to leave their families, friends and communities to live in exile. Allyson Hobbs reveals this piece of history and how it affected race relations in her new book “A Chosen Exile.” Watch the interview here.
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Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’ The Guardian 2015-12-13 Chris McGreal, Senior Writer Guardian US Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks…
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Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States
Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States Chapter 16: a community of Tennessee writers, readers & passersby 2015-12-11 Aram Goudsouzian, Professor of History University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee In A Chosen Exile, Allyson Hobbs analyzes how and why black people passed as white throughout American history. An…