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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The Passing of Passing: A Peculiarly American Racial Tradition Approaches Irrelevance BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed 2014-12-14 Robert Fikes Jr., Reference Librarian San Diego State University, San Diego, California Three Harlem Women, ca. 1925 In the article below, independent scholar Robert Fikes Jr., explores a centuries-old process in the United States where African Americans with no…
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Oxherding Tale: A Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) 1982 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780743264495 eBook ISBN: 9780743277419 Charles Johnson, Pollock Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives,…
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The Fluidity of Race: “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940 The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 20828 January 2015 76 pages DOI: 10.3386/w20828 Emily Nix Department of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Nancy Qian, Associate Professor of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut This paper quantifies the extent to which…
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ENLT 2513 Major Authors of American Literature: Race and Performance University of Virginia Spring 2015 Sarah Ingle, Lecturer This course will explore representations of race and performance in American literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present. We will examine cultural phenomena such as blackface minstrel shows, stories of racial “passing,” and a…
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When Being Black Is a Family Secret the sisterhood: where jewish women converse The Jewish Daily Forward 2015-01-02 Susan Reimer-Torn When Lacey Schwartz was accepted at Georgetown University, it was a dream come true. It also blew the lid off a tightly-guarded secret. Along with her admission, the high school senior from Woodstock, New York…
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Jewish girl overcomes a ‘Little White Lie’ about race The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2015-01-05 Jeneé Osterheldt When I look at one of her old baby pictures, I think of my own childhood snapshots. A mixed little girl sits happily in her white mama’s lap. It’s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and…
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Racial Passing and the Raj American Historical Association 129th Annual Meeting New York, New York 2015-01-02 through 2015-01-05 Saturday, 2015-01-03, 15:10 EST (Local Time) Park Suite 3 (Sheraton New York) Uther Charlton-Stevens Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia Racial passing is a subject that has attracted much attention in the historiography of the Americas, as well…
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell (Born 1921): Teaching America that black was beautiful. The Lives They Lived The New York Times Magazine 2014-12-25 Touré DeVore-Mitchell during her modeling days. Photograph by Rupert Callender from the DeVore family archive One day in 1946, a black woman showed up at the Vogue School of Modeling in New York, seeking to…
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, 92, Dies; Redefined Beauty The New York Times 2014-03-13 Margalit Fox Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell Credit MARBL/Emory University, via Associated Press Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell, a former model, agent, charm-school director and newspaper publisher who almost single-handedly opened the modeling profession to African-Americans, and in so doing expanded public understanding of what American beauty looks like, died…
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Who’s Passing for Who? Genius 2014-12-22 (Originally written in 1956) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) In this short story, written in 1956, Hughes plays with the idea of race as a social construct. Considering the American “one-drop rule,” which meant if you had at least 1/33 African ancestry you were black, the narrator is puzzled by whether…