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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Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids Chronicle Books 2010-03-17 264 pages 7 x 7 in; 127 color photographs ISBN 9780811874083 ISBN10 0811874087 Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Foreword by Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng Afterword by Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) Mixed — From beloved writer and artist Kip Fulbeck, author of Part…
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Interview with Ngozi Onwurah African Women in Cinema African Literature Association Conference April 1997 East Lansing, Michigan Originally published in Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film Video and Television. Africa World Press, Trenton, NJ, 2000. In another conversation, we talked about your identity as an African woman filmmaker based in London. You…
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A Knock Out: A film by Tessa Boerman and Samuel Reiziger Women Make Movies Netherlands, 2004 53 minutes Color, VHS/DVD Subtitled Order No. W05882 Boxing champion Michele Aboro grew up in South London, where life for a girl was never easy, let alone for a mixed-race lesbian girl. Thanks to her tenacious spirit and an…
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This lyrical, unsettling film conveys the experience of children of mixed racial heritage. Suffering the aggression of racial harassment, a young girl and her brother attempt to wash their skin white with scouring powder.
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IC Documentarians: Incongruities Investigator – Nisma Zaman Ithica College Quarterly 2006/4 Mbeti Hyess Nisma Zaman ’92 solidified her passion for documentary filmmaking at IC, where she began work on a short 16mm film exploring mixed-race identities. Beyond Black and White went on to debut at the Asian American International Film Festival in 1995 and remains…
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In her seminal text Femininity, Susan Brownmiller identifies what can simply be termed the mythic proportions of the female body. Idealized, worshiped, ravaged, and reviled-the female body is forever being measured (usually against the unattainable paradigms of a male imagination) and found lacking. The myth of the female body’s inadequacy is crucial to my discussion…
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Miscegenation Facts […From 1879] Daily British Colonist Vicoria, British Columbia 1879-10-07 21st Year Page 1, 2nd Column David W. Higgins, Editor and Proprietor The child of colored parents of different tints, such as quadroon and mulatto, or mulatto and black, will be nearer to the tint of the darker parent. If both parents of the…