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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Quadroon Balls | LFOLKS (1985) Louisiana Public Broadcasting2022-01-05 This segment from the February 10, 1985, episode of the series “Folks” features Genevieve Stewart’s report on the history of the quadroon balls in 19th century New Orleans, clandestine events where white men met free women of color, who would become their mistresses. She visits the Orleans…
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps Rebecca Hall and Lee Daniels solve family mysteries through DNA detective work, illuminating both history and their own identities.
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Jeannie Gustavson almost gave up on finding her lost love. Then one small break revealed something she never expected.
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Award-winning novelist and educator Jewell Parker Rhodes and her daughter, young adult author Kelly McWilliams, came together in conversation to discuss book bans and young adult literature.
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Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” liberated her family, as Hall’s grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit.
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The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price University of Arkansas Press September 2015 Produced by James Greeson Associate Producer – Dale Carpenter Narrated by Julia Sampson Running Time: 00:57:00 DVD ISBN: 978-1-68226-006-7 Born in 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas to extraordinary parents, Florence B. Price became the first African-American woman to…
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Film Screening with Director Ines Johnson-Spain in Attendance: “Becoming Black” Black Germans2021-11-17 Sponsored by Waterloo Centre for German, German at University of Toronto, and Africana Studies at Rutgers University-CamdenNovember 17, 2021 SYNOPSIS: Becoming Black (dir. Ines Johnson-Spain, 2019, 91 min.): In the 1960s, the East German Sigrid falls in love with Lucien from Togo, one of several African…
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In this web exclusive, Joy Bivins, director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, talks with Michelle Miller about the personal impact of someone of mixed race passing for White (or Black).