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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“What Is The Emotional Legacy Of A Life Lived In Hiding?” Rebecca Hall Honours Her Family’s History In Her New Film Passing Vogue UK 2021-10-29 Rebecca Hall Molly Cranna For her directorial debut, the British actor brings to life the novel that helped unlock the meaning of her family’s heritage. The elucidation of a family’s…
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For over 300 years, socially defined notions of “race” have shaped human lives around the globe—but the category has no biological foundation.
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Film Screening with Director Ines Johnson-Spain in Attendance: “Becoming Black” Black Germans2021-11-17 Sponsored by Waterloo Centre for German, German at University of Toronto, and Africana Studies at Rutgers University-CamdenNovember 17, 2021 SYNOPSIS: Becoming Black (dir. Ines Johnson-Spain, 2019, 91 min.): In the 1960s, the East German Sigrid falls in love with Lucien from Togo, one of several African…
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The Balance Tips Interlude Press 2021-10-05 280 pages 6″x9″ ISBN (Print): 978-1-951954-01-7 ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-951954-02-4 Joy Huang-Iris Fay Wu Goodson is a 25-year-old queer, multiracial woman who documents the identity journeys of other New Yorkers. She finds her videography work meaningful, but more importantly, it distracts her from investigating the challenges of her own life…
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Looking back at Jackie Court, other Black trailblazers in Brown Athletics program
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The permeability of race can be gleaned through these two Shields family lines both in how they went about repressing their ties to enslaved black women and how these culminated in the present-day Shields descendants, Roseanne Cash and Michelle Obama.
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Larsen’s 1929 novel, now a Netflix film, illustrates the degree to which race is a construct – without lecturing the reader.
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In this web exclusive, Joy Bivins, director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talks with Michelle Miller about the personal impact of someone of mixed race passing for White (or Black).