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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Yael Ben-Zion uses photography and text to reflect on intermarriage.
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The trouble with ‘passing’ for another race/sexuality/religion… The Guardian 2014-01-02 Koa Beck Brooklyn, New York The broadening of the definition historically used for those of mixed-race who ‘passed’ as white exposes the power of privilege “Racial passing“, or “passing”, was originally coined to define the experience of mixed raced individuals, particularly in America, who were…
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Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith Religion Dispatches Sexuality/Gender University of Southern California 2011-05-31 Peter Montgomery, Associate Editor Political scientist Melissa Harris-Perry has developed a devoted following with her appearances on Bill Moyers Journal and Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, and her insightful commentaries on race, history, politics and culture in The Nation and…
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Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family Beacon Press 2013-10-22 264 pages 5.5″ X 8.5″ inches Cloth ISBN: 978-080701319-9 Susan Katz Miller A book on the growing number of interfaith families raising children in two religions Susan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish. Now…
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INDIGO: An Exhibit of Textiles Gandhi Memorial Center 4748 Western Avenue Bethesda, Maryland, 20816 Washington, D.C. Phone: 301-320-6871 Opening Reception: Saturday, 2013-11-16, 14:00-16:00 EST (Local Time) Inaugural Remarks at 14:30 EST INDIGO, an exhibition of textiles by Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti will be inaugurated at the Gandhi Memorial Center in cooperation with the Embassy…
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the road weeps, the well runs dry Los Angeles Theater Center 514 South Spring Street Los Angeles, California 90013 Telephone: 213.489.0994 2013-10-24 through 2013-11-17 Thursday-Saturday: 20:00 PT (Local Time) Sunday: 15:00 PT (Local Time) Written by Marcus Gardley Directed by Shirley Jo Finney Rolling World Premiere Surviving centuries of slavery, revolts, and The Trail of…
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Jesus for Revolutionaries: An Introduction to Race, Social Justice, and Christianity Robert Chao Romero 2013-10-07 262 pages 5.83 wide x 8.26 tall Paperback ISBN: 9781304513984 eBook ISBN: 9781304531063 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Are you a “revolutionary”? Are you curious about exploring issues…
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“A Future Unwritten”: Blackness between the Religious Invocations of Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith South Atlantic Quarterly Volume 112, Number 4 (2013) pages 657-674 DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2345225 Brian Bantum, Assistant Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University Race and religion were two aspects of the Western colonial project. Novelists Heidi Durrow and Zadie Smith reflect two related…
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My Basmati Bat Mitzvah Amulet Books 2013-10-01 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 1-4197-0806-6 Paula J. Freedman During the fall leading up to her bat mitzvah, Tara (Hindi for “star”) Feinstein has a lot more than her Torah portion on her mind. Between Hebrew school and study sessions with the rabbi, there…