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: Media Archive
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Bill: New Yorkers could identify as multiracial The Associated Press 2014-11-25 Jonathan Lemire, City Hall and Political Reporter NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers may soon be able to identify themselves as more than one race under legislation introduced in the City Council on Tuesday. The measure would change dozens of official documents, including applications…
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Proposal for NYC Forms: Option to Identify as Multiracial The Wall Street Journal 2014-11-24 Mara Gay, City Hall Reporter Legislation Being Introduced in City Council on Tuesday New Yorkers would be able to identify as more than one race on city documents under legislation set to be introduced in the City Council on Tuesday. “We…
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Allyson Hobbs (Book) A Chosen Exile Joe Madison The Black Eagle SiriusXM Urban ViewAfrican-American Talk 2014-11-13 Joe Madison, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University
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A Secret Falls From the Family Tree, and a Girl’s Identity Branches Out The New York Times 2014-11-23 Ben Kenigsberg, Film Critic ‘Little White Lie,’ a Personal Documentary About Race The documentary “Little White Lie” would be provocative simply for what it says about race and identity. The director Lacey Schwartz grew up Jewish in…
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AN OCTOROON: THE OCTOROON an essay by James Leverett The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-04-01 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama There is melodrama in every tragedy, just as there is a child in every adult.” –Eric Bentley, Life of the Drama A Suggested Walk I…
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What is Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON? The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-03-17 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama Professor of Dramatic Criticism James Leverett from The Yale School of Drama joins us in this video to give context and background to Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama The…