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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Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers explains the particular kind of pain revelations about Michelle Latimer have caused within the Indigenous film community
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Bourassa, a professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan and a leading expert on indigenous issues, has been exposed as a fraud. A family tree prepared by a group of academics who were suspicious of her ancestral claims shows that Bourassa is of Swiss, Hungarian, Polish and Czechoslovakian…
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Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” liberated her family, as Hall’s grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit.
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Stephen Wall’s grandfather, also named Stephen (left, from family album), had been a wealthy white plantation owner and slaveholder in Rockingham, North Carolina in the early 19th century. He never married, but fathered many children with some of his enslaved women.
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From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.
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Director Rebecca Hall’s recent adaptation of Nella Larsen’s exquisite second novel, Passing (1929), is visually stunning. I had the pleasure of seeing the film on the big screen, during its limited theatrical run and before its Netflix release.
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‘Passing’ filmmaker Rebecca Hall shares the personal story behind her movie Fresh Air National Public Radio 2021-11-30 Terri Gross, Host Rebecca Hall (right) works on the set of Passing with actors Ruth Negga (left) and Tessa Thompson. Netflix Actor/filmmaker Rebecca Hall had what she describes as a “real gasp” moment when she first read Nella…
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Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of “Passing” expertly uses the craft of cinema to explore race and colorism from a Black point of view, Imani Perry argues.
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Getting into Character: Racial Passing and the Limitations of Performativity and Performance in Britt Bennett’s The Vanishing Half Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Published online 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2021.2007838 Ohad Reznick, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel Judith Butler’s notion of performativity has been criticized because of…
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Kelly McWilliams is the author of the upcoming “Mirror Girls,” a novel about sisterhood and passing.