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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A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.
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She fabricated harrowing personal backstories, peddled gross caricatures, and spoke from perspectives she had no right to claim. And nobody stopped her.
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Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut “Passing” dives into the nuance of racial identity and the complex realities of racial passing, with Variety’s Sundance review touting Hall’s work: “This radically intimate exploration of the desperately fraught concept of ‘passing’ — being Black but pretending to be white — ought to be too ambitious for a first-time…
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A superbly performed study of racialized longing and feminine dissatisfaction in 1920s New York, lit by searing intelligence and compassion.
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Finding oneself in ‘Surviving the White Gaze’ The Boston Globe 2021-01-28 Blaise Allysen Kearsley, Globe Correspondent Judith Rudd for The Boston Globe Surviving The White Gaze: A Memoir By Rebecca Carroll Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $26 The core function of tween- and teen-hood is the lofty job of figuring out who we are, as…
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North Carolina Free People of Color, 1715-1885 with Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. Research at the National Archives and Beyond 2020-06-25 Bernice Bennett, Host Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as negroes, mulattoes, mustees, Indians, mixed-bloods, or simply free people of color. From the colonial period through Reconstruction,…
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I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.
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No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner University Press of Mississippi November 2020 208 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781496830708 Paperback ISBN: 9781496830692 Andre E. Johnson, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee A critical study of the career of the nineteenth-century bishop No Future in…
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A foundational collection of essays that demonstrate how to study race and media