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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“The Bluest Eye” and “Imitation of Life” (1934): Variations on a Theme (Maggie Tarmey) Toni Morrison: A Teaching and Learning Resource Collection 2021-06-08 Maggie Tarmey The following essay is written by student Maggie Tarmey, with edits by Amardeep Singh. While the two appear quite different from one another, Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye and…
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Marginal Citizens: Interracial intimacies and the incarceration of Japanese Canadians, 1942–1949 Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et SociétéPublished online 2021-09-08DOI: 10.1017/cls.2021.18 Mary Anne Vallianatos, Ph.D. CandidateUniversity of Victoria School of Law, British Columbia Following Japan’s 1941 attacks on Hawai’i and Hong Kong, Canada relocated, detained, and exiled citizens and…
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Quadroon Balls | LFOLKS (1985) Louisiana Public Broadcasting2022-01-05 This segment from the February 10, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Genevieve Stewart’s report on the history of the quadroon balls in 19th century New Orleans, clandestine events where white men met free women of color, who would become their mistresses. She visits the Orleans…
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She ran boardinghouses whose lodgers included members of New York’s elite, raised money for an orphan asylum and was active in the abolitionists’ cause.
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As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race.
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Who’s Afraid of Lani Guinier? The New York Times Magazine 1994-02-27 Lani Guinier For a late April day in Washington, the air was remarkably soft. The sun-splashed courtyard of the Department of Justice seemed a reflection of the glow surrounding Attorney General Janet Reno. She had just returned from a successful venture to Capitol Hill,…
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Ewing, also the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, died Sunday at her home in Detroit