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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Letters To a Mixed Race Son CreateSpace 2012-01-06 152 pages 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1468184024; ISBN-13: 978-1468184020 Frank E. Robinson, Jr. Foreword by Bishop Charles E. Blake In a world that continues to grapple with notions of race, a loving father writes a series of letters that speak into the life…
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COLA Seminar Probes Shifting Identity of ‘Whiteness’ in America University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 2014-11-17 Anne Bromley, Associate UVA Today The category of “white” as the majority race against which other groups have been described in the United States might seem well-defined, but it has been anything but that…
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A Profound Documentary, Little White Lie Follows a Woman’s Search for Her Identify The Village Voice New York, New York 2014-11-26 Diana Clarke In Woodstock, New York, at the end of the 20th century, Lacey Schwartz was raised in an affluent Jewish household where something was slightly off. Darker-skinned than her mother and father, Schwartz…
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Going to College and Learning You’re Black: The Moving Story of Little White Lie Vanity Fair Vanity Fair’s Hollywood 2014-11-25 Chase Quinn “You boys are black, and don’t you forget that.” From an early age I was taught that both my black identity and my white-Irish identity were important, and that I was never to…
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Could you imagine living your entire life not knowing your true ethnic background? Movie director Lacey Schwartz can. Watch her talk about her new film “Little White Lie” and more:
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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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How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white Vox 2014-11-19 Jenée Desmond-Harris When Lacey Schwartz was accepted to Georgetown University, the school saw her photo and passed her name along to the black student association. The organization contacted her. The only issue: Schwartz had grown up in a Jewish household in Woodstock New…