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: Religion
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All four books under review here are concerned with telling dramatic tales about singular, real lives. But they are also books about race. They are driven by the larger goal of making the individual story stand for more than itself.
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“Little White Lie: A Film about Dual Identity and Family Secrets” with Lacey Schwartz Taube Center for Jewish Studies Stanford University Center For Educational Research (Room 101) 520 Galvez Mall Stanford, California 2015-10-28, 19:00 PDT (Local Time) “Between Race and Religion: Contemporary American Jewish Life” series with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and…
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Black Magic Woman and Narrative Film: Race, Sex and Afro-Religiosity Palgrave Macmillan July 2015 216 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137454171 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137454195 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137454188 Montré Aza Missouri, Associate Professor in Film Howard University, Washington, D.C. Contributing to emerging scholarship on representations of race, gender, sexuality and religion in film and media, Black…
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This is not another essay about how hard it is to be light skinned in a dark man’s world. Why? Because the suggestion that this is a dark man’s world is ridiculous. Unless you’ve had your head up your butt, we quite clearly do not live in a version of the universe where overall it…
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Hanif Kureishi: ‘We’re all mixed-race now The Independent 2011-10-23 James Kidd Immigration, Islamism, multi-culturalism – as his new collected stories attests, the hottest topics of the day have long been the bedrock of Hanif Kureishi’s fiction. Just don’t get him started on the joys of ‘Big Brother’… Hanif Kureishi is, by some accounts, a hard…
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Something Old, Something New BBC Radio 4 2015-10-06 Johny Pitts, Host Peter Meanwell, Producer Recorded & mixed! Finished @BBCRadio4 (Engineer Steve Hellier with Johny Pitts) Source: Peter Meanwell From Sheffield to South Carolina, Johny Pitts explores alternative Black British identity. What happens when your Dad’s an African-American soul star [Richie Pitts] and your Mum’s a…
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Dr. Wanda Wyporska on Witchcraft Persecution WandaWyporskaWitchcraft 2014-09-07 Dr. Wanda Wyporska A show reel of Dr Wanda Wyporska talking about witchcraft for the BBC BAME expert days – 2014
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Every Family Has Its Secrets: Lacey Schwartz Connects with Film Forward Audiences in Taiwan Sundance Film Forward 2015-09-24 Lacey Schwartz, Director Little White Lie This Sundance Film Forward trip to Taiwan marked the Asian Premiere of Little White Lie. It also was my first time ever in Asia. The things that people seemed to say…