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: Videos
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“Born With It” – Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Jr. University of Southern California East Asian Studies Center University Park Campus Leavey Auditorium (LVL) 17 Tuesday, 2016-03-29, 16:15-17:45 PDT (Local Time) Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., Filmaker “Born With It” follows the story of a 9-year-old Ghanaian-Japanese boy, Keisuke. Keisuke begins at a new school…
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“Mulatto: It’s Not a Cool Word” The Atlantic 2016-03-04 Nadine Ajaka, Associate Producer for Video Evoking the Mulatto is a multimedia project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States. It was created by the filmmaker Lindsay Catherine Harris, and features compelling…
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Black hair is finally fashionable. But on whose terms? – video The Guardian 2016-03-09 Emma Dabiri Growing up with afro hair can be traumatic, especially when white ideals of beauty are everywhere. But, says Emma Dabiri, black women are increasingly letting their natural hair out, and the ‘fro is becoming fashionable. But, she argues, they…
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‘Free State of Jones’ author talks The Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi 2016-03-02 Author Victoria Bynum discusses her book, Free State of Jones, which is now a new Hollywood movie starring Matthew Mcconaughey. Watch the interview here.
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A Conversation With Latinos on Race The New York Times 2016-02-29 Joe Brewster Blair Foster Michèle Stephenson Last year we set out to make a series of short documentaries that we hoped would foster a discussion about race relations in the United States. To date the series has focused on the personal nuances of systemic…
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1-on-1 with Gopher basketball star Rachel Banham FOX 9, KMSP-TV Eden Prairie, Minnesota 2016-02-27 Hobie Artigue, Reporter MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – University of Minnesota senior Rachel Banham has been the best player to watch in the Twin Cities on the basketball court and is the toast of the Big Ten. Watch Fox 9’s Hobie Artigue hit…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life Emory University 2016-02-18 In this Race and Difference Colloquium, Allyson Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University, discusses her first book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, published by Harvard University Press in October…