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 History of Loss Harvard University Press Blog Harvard University Press 2014-10-08 Between the late eighteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and communities without any available avenue for return. As historian Allyson Hobbs explains in A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,…
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‘A Chosen Exile’: Black People Passing In White America Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2014-10-07 Karen Grigsby Bates, Correspondent Culver City, California Dr. Albert Johnston passed in order to practice medicine. After living as leading citizens in Keene, N.H., the Johnstons revealed their true racial identity,…
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Before the dialogue begins, before the first stage direction is explained, the complexities of race and racial identity percolate up from the script of “Am I White,” a new play by Austin writer Adrienne Dawes. Take the cast list: “Wesley Connor, biracial (passes as white), member of the White Order of Thule,” “Ryan Cahill, white,…
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Clotel or, The President’s Daughter Penguin Press 2003-12-30 (First published in December 1853) 320 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142437728 ePub ISBN: 9781440626616 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Introduction by: M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had…
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“Am I White” by Adrienne Dawes Salvage Vanguard Theater Presents the Word Premiere of Am I White by Adrienne Dawes Performances run October 1- 18, 2014 VIP Opening Night Performance: October 4, 2014 Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road Austin, Texas 78722 Telephone: (512) 474-SVT-6 (474-7886) Salvage Vanguard Theater announces the third and final MADE…
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Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to…
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The Morristown Festival of Books is Proud to Announce the Authors for September 26 and 27, 2014 Morristown Festival of Books: Where Readers & Authors Meet Morristown, New Jersey 2014-06-24 We are pleased to present our Friday night Keynote speaker and 21 authors appearing at the all-day Saturday Festival! They will be sharing their perspectives…
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The Penumbral Spaces of Nella Larsen’s Passing: Undecidable bodies, mobile identities, and the deconstruction of racial boundaries Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Volume 13, Issue 3, 2006 pages 227-246 DOI: 10.1080/09663690600700972 Perry L. Carter, Assistant Professor of Human Geography Texas Tech University Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, is a psychological drama…
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Choose Your Own Race Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2014-08-29 Emily Raboteau ‘Your Face in Mine,’ by Jess Row Do you ever dream of starting again in a new skin? This is the central question of Jess Row’s provocative and intriguing first novel, “Your Face in Mine.” It’s also a tag line of…
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A Mother’s Love: Stories of Struggle, Sacrifice, Love and Wisdom The Root 2014-05-11 Breanna Edwards Journalist Alysia Steele’s explores the “jewels in the Mississippi Delta” who held it down for their families through decades of strife and racial struggle. It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and many of us may feel the keen absence of the women…