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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Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture Rutgers University Press 2018-10-17 296 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-9788-0130-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-9788-0131-8 PDF ISBN: 978-1-9788-0134-9 EPUB ISBN: 978-1-9788-0132-5 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-1-9788-0133-2 Edited by: Domino Perez, Associate Professor of English University of Texas, Austin Rachel González-Martin, Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies University of…
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At the opening of “Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America,” Sharon Block poses two provocative questions: “What were the meanings of black, white, and red in the colonial eighteenth century; and how did Anglo-American colonists describe people’s appearance?” (1) To answer these queries Block presents a cultural history race in Britain’s 18th century…
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“Colonial Complexions” will be an enduring contribution to digital age historical methodology and interpretations of early Atlantic newspapers as digitized eighteenth-century British newspapers and databases of British runaway advertisements continue to become available.
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In “Colonial Complexions,” historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance.
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Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II.
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By Repackaging the Myths of the Tragic Octoroon and the Self-Made Woman, Lulu White Crafted a Persona That Haunts Beyoncé’s “Formation”
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Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut is an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel “Passing,” a theme little seen since the likes of “Show Boat” and “Pinky”
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I rarely see Afro-Latinas on television. Online, it’s a different story.
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The men and women vary in age, circumstances and happiness levels, but they have one thing in common. They are all part of interracial couples.