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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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life – Allyson Hobbs Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-11-06, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-07, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Allyson Hobbs is an assistant professor in the history department at Stanford. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and she received…
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241F Performances of Passing, Performances of Resistance Hamilton College, Clinton, New York Spring 2014 Yumi Pak, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies An examination of the historical practice of passing in the United States. While the practice has most commonly referred to the history of racial passing for light-skinned African Americans in the early…
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‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs: review San Francisco Chronicle 2014-11-01 Imani Perry, Professor, Center for African American Studies Princeton University Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Family across the color line: It is now a popular enough theme that it qualifies as a…
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Allyson Hobbs – “A Chosen Exile” The Tavis Smiley Show 2014-10-31 Between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless fair-skinned African Americans abandoned families, friends and communities to forge new lives as white people. In her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Stanford University historian Allyson Hobbs explores the…
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Those who masqueraded as white scarred more than just themselves, finds Catherine Clinton
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Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life The Mixed Experience 2014-10-20 Heidi Durrow, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University I was lucky enough to get an advance reading copy of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing…
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Passing For White South Florida Sun-Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2003-11-01 David Crary The Associated Press America is more diverse than ever and racial pride is strong, yet a new movie and book are highlighting a phenomenon that seems like a relic of the segregationist past — black people passing as white. The film, The Human…
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Black may be beautiful, but here’s a somewhat paler man who’s been involved with the uglier parts of the White Power movement. His name is Wesley Connor and he’s the main character in a new drama called Am I White by Austin playwright Adrienne Dawes. And this Connor guy is based on a real, actual…
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Racial passing was a painful way to improve life Asbury Park Press Neptune, New Jersey 2014-09-19 Kelly-Jane Cotter, Staff Writer Racial passing helped African-Americans create new lives in a time of danger. But a Morristown author’s new book also examines the complex legacy of passing, and the pain of leaving families behind. Allyson Hobbs has…