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: Philosophy
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This critically acclaimed drama from filmmaker Julie Dash (Daughers of the Dust) takes place in 1942 at a fictitious Hollywood motion picture studio.
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In his lucid new memoir, Thomas Chatterton Williams channels Albert Camus and James Baldwin—and offers a thoughtful counterpoint to the tired racial dogmas of both Right and Left.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams has seen the future, and he is it.
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“Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race” by Thomas Chatterton Williams reviewed
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What occasioned this new effort was the arrival of his first child, Marlow, after marrying his wife, Valentine, the white, blond-haired scion of French aristocrats. Williams fell in love with the French language as an undergraduate when a wealthy student said the word “baguette” to him, and Williams was embarrassed that he didn’t know what…
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While his “Self-Portrait in Black and White” begins with assertions of his blackness, it evolves into a rich set of questions occasioned by the birth of his first child.
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A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics.
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The rewards of subordinating racial or ethnic identity, in the new memoiristic essay by the author of ‘Losing My Cool’
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My father was raised under Jim Crow. My children could pass for white. Where does that leave me?