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 Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America – Daniel J. Sharfstein Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-06-26, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-06-27, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Join author, Daniel J. Sharfstein for a discussion of his book and…
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How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-07-19 Tanvi Misra There’s a weekly trial on the Internet about who may be stealing culture from whom. Earlier this week, the defendants were Iggy Azalea and white gay men. A while…
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The Chosen Exile of Racial “Passing:” Allyson Hobbs at TEDxStanford TEDx Talks 2014-05-30 Allyson Hobbs, PhD 2009, speaks about the history of racial passing for TEDx Talks. Using the Emersonian idea of “coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience,” Hobbs tells the story of a cousin who passed for white,…
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Driving her fashionable Ford roadster from Detroit to Ann Arbor, Elsie Roxborough arrived at the University of Michigan as a freshman fifty years ago last fall. She was the first Negro student to live in a University dormitory. Her classmate Arthur Miller, an aspiring playwright and fellow reporter on the campus newspaper, called her “a…
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“You Just Said ‘We’”: The complexity of not being White and not being a person of color. Nick Franco May 2014 Nick Franco, Coordinator for the Student Affairs/SOLES Collaborative University of San Diego This past Tuesday night, I did a mock presentation of my dissertation proposal for my dissertation seminar course. It went fairly well,…
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Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by Jewish writer Fannie Hurst, but it is perhaps best known as the 1959 melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk inducing finale of the Sirk film, the prodigal black daughter, who has crossed the color line and passed for white, returns home…
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Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America The Ethics@noon Series The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Stanford University 2011-02-04 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University On February 4th, 2011 Allyson Hobbs discussed the Jim Crow era as a watershed in the history of racial passing.…
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The Theme of “Passing” in the Novels of James Weldon Johnson and Nella Larsen International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) Volume 1, Number 4 (2014) pages 53-58 ISSN: 2348-0343 Dinesh Babu. P. Department of English Ramanujan College (University of Delhi), Kalkaji, New Delhi, India The depiction of the experience of a very fair-skinned…
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Toni Morrison and the Burden of the Passing Narrative African American Review Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer, 2001) pages 205-217 Juda Bennett, Associate Professor of English The College of New Jersey Passing for white, a phenomenon that once captivated writers as diverse as Charles Chesnutt, Sinclair Lewis, Nella Larsen, and Mark Twain, no longer seems…