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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A summer camp where Jews of color go to ‘feel normal’ The Times of Israel 2014-08-20 Rebecca Spence With an emphasis on diverse Diaspora Judaism, Camp Be’chol Lashon has a markedly different mandate than most Jewish camps PETALUMA, Calif. (JTA) — On a cool Sunday evening, Jewish campers with nervous smiles took to the stage…
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Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood Indiana University Press 2014-08-01 286 pages 31 b&w illus. 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-253-01319-4 Keren R. McGinity, Author-Educator Love & Tradition: intermarriage insights for a Jewish future When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are “lost” to the Jewish religion. In…
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Northern Ireland’s most (un)wanted Media Diversified 2014-07-28 Jayne Olorunda Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast has had many songs written about it. The lyrics of one Belfast song resonates in my ear as I think of the reputation the city now has. The lyrics of the song always stood out to me, but now they are more…
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“Little White Lie”: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White Madame Noire 2014-08-04 Veronica Wells Most of us know from a very early age that we’re Black. It happens so early that many of us can’t remember a specific conversation or moment where we learned this truth. But that wasn’t the…
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Little White Lie,’ Lacey Schwartz’s Film About Self-Discovery
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Little White Lie [Philadelphia Premiere] Blackstar Film Festival Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-31-07 through 2014-08-03 International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Telephone: 215-387-5125 2014-08-02, 15:10 EDT (Local Time) Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer Followed by Q&A with Lacey Schwartz and Mehret Mandefro moderated by: Yaba Blay, Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University,…
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Little White Lie OTB Productions LLC 2013 66 minutes Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer James Adolphus, Co-Director What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her…
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Search through own heritage leads evangelist to story about enslaved mixed-race pastor The Advocate Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2014-06-16 Mark H. Hunter, Special to The Advocate If local school district officials knew then what Sammy Tippit knows now, he might not have been allowed to attend Istrouma High School. Tippit, 66, is a world-renowned evangelist who…