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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This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation.
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More than a “Passing” Sophistication: Dress, Film Regulation, and the Color Line in 1930s American Films WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly Volume 41, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2013 pages 60-86 DOI: 10.1353/wsq.2013.0048 Ellen Scott, Assistant Professor of Media Studies Queens College, City University of New York When we think of African American representations of 1930s…
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Breeding Unity: Battlestar Galactica’s Biracial Reproductive Futurity Camera Obscura Volume 27, Number 3 81 (2012) pages 1-37 DOI: 10.1215/02705346-1727446 Anne Kustritz, Assistant Professor in Television Studies University of Amsterdam While Battlestar Galactica reinvigorated the science fiction genre by representing contemporary political problems in a complex, often radical fashion, the series also makes visible a new articulation…
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Race and the Visual Arts: LAHS-P236 Berklee College of Music Boston, Massachusetts Fall 2013 In this course, students explore the representation of race in visual culture and the ways in which culture marks subjects, objects, and bodies with racial identity. Wherever we look we are confronted by images that are explicitly or implicitly racialized—in artistic…
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From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilities
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Dwayne Johnson – ‘Race Shifter’ In A Post Racial World? Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2013-03-27 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer We all know that there’s been a lot of talk about how we are all now living in a “post-racial” society. Though I think, most of us will respond to that…
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UW communication professor unveils new book about race The Daily of the University of Washington 2013-02-07 LaVendrick Smith Ralina Joseph discusses her book cover art at “Troubling the Family and Transcending Blackness” held at the UW bookstore. Photo by Dario Nanbu Race, reality, and pop culture collide in a new book written by one UW…
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Al Jazeera America signs Soledad O’Brien as special correspondent Al Jazeera America 2013-07-01 Al Jazeera America, the new American news channel that will launch in August, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Emmy Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien’s production company, Starfish Media Group. O’Brien will contribute short-form segments as Special Correspondent to Al…