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: Communications/Media Studies
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“Thinking While Black” brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and revolution around the world as young Black teenagers in the late 1960s.
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In 2005, the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress added the 1934 version of Imitation of Life to the National Film Registry, its roster of “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” films. Archivist Ariel Schudson’s essay marking the occasion touts the film as “a defining moment in the history of women in film…
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The optics, while a sign of change, don’t point to any change in the status quo
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How a UNH student inspired one of America’s first “race films” and why we’re still talking about it
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“The White Indians of Mexican Cinema” theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Performance and Identity in Adrian Piper’s Work InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies Volume 8, Number 2 (2020) DOI: 10.4000/inmedia.2754 17 pages Antonia Rigaud, Associate Professor of American Studies Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris France Lorna Simpson Head On Ice #3 2016 Ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass Unique 67 x 50 x 1 3/8…