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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Bocafloja Confronts Anti-Blackness Across the Americas in New Documentary ‘Nana Dijo’ Remezcla 2016-02-17 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California When musicians and filmmakers Bocafloja and Cambiowashere first set out to create Nana Dijo, a gripping documentary about the African diaspora in the Americas, both wanted to stray away from traditional documentary approaches that have tended to…
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Meet Team One Drop: Ben Affleck Fanshen Cox 2016-02-10 One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class and gender – and in search of justice and love. The show is written and performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. For more information, click here.
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Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent University of Southern California, University Park Campus Los Angeles, California Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) Montgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340) Friday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Rising Soul is a documentary film that explores the question, “What is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their…
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Music does not discriminate | Chi Chi Nwanoku | TEDxEuston TEDx Talks 2016-01-14 Chi Chi Nwanoku speaks at a 2015 TEDx event in London. Chi-Chi Nwanoku MBE is the Founder, Artistic Director of Chineke!, Europe’s first classical orchestra of Black and Ethnic Minority musicians and is also the Principal Double bassist and founder of the…
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“The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” – SNL Saturday Night Live (NBC) 2016-02-13
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Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient’s skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk,…
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A Ballerina’s Tale By Nelson George | in Dance Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Premieres 2016-02-08 Few dancers reach the highest levels of classical ballet; of that few only a fraction are black women. Against the odds, Misty Copeland has made history by becoming the first African American principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet…
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Voices from Mixed Asian America MJ Engel Columbia University, New York, New York 2016-01-27 Hearing the unfiltered voices of the mixed Asian experience remains a novelty. “Voices from Mixed Asian America” is a compilation of interviews conducted with eight mixed race individuals. This series amplifies and connects the personal experiences of mixed Asian voices and…