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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AfroPoP – A Lot Like You AfroPoP PBS Video Duration: (00:56:59) Premiere Date: 2013-01-22 Episode Expires: 2013-02-22 Eliaichi Kimaro, Director A bi-racial filmmaker returns to her father’s home tribe on Mount Kilomanjaro. Premieres January 22nd on the WORLD Channel. In this award-winning and very personal documentary a young woman probes her interracial roots to find…
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Hafu: The Film Hafu: The Film 2013-01-30 Megumi Nishikura, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Lara Perez Takagi, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Marcia Yumi Lise, Thematic Advisor Jilann Spitzmiller, Executive Producer Aika Miyake, Editor Winton White, Music Dear Friends, A belated happy new years to you! We have been quietly busy these past few months but have…
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A Lot Like You: A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro USA/Tanzania 2012 55 minutes/82 minutes Eliachi Kimaro, Director (2012) WINNER, Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary: 35th Annual Asian American International Film Festival (New York) (2012) WINNER, Best Documentary: Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto) (2012) WINNER, Jury Prize for Best Documentary: 30th Annual San Francisco International…
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When no one else looks like you Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-12-15 (CNN) – “Who is Black in America?” explores how color affects identity. In this video, Danielle Ayers, a biracial woman, discusses her search for identity and the challenges of being color blind after growing up…
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Jackie Kay @ 5×15 5×15 2012-10-16 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Five speakers, fifteen minutes each. True stories of passion, obsession and adventure recounted live with just two rules: no scripts and only fifteen minutes each. The Red Dust Road Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in…
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An Eagle Eye in Harlem narratively: Local. Original. Organic. In-Depth. 2012-12-10 Jenni Monet From Malcolm X Boulevard to pow-wow road trips, a black man from Georgia adopts a Cherokee persona despite questionable ties to any Native American roots. Robert Banks’ one-bedroom flat is lavishly decorated with Native American artwork—sculptures and dreamcatchers that the 71-year-old Georgia…
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Obaloba, The Whale Island Innovative Transmedia Productions 2012 Matteo Stanzani, Creative Director ‘OBALOBA, the whale island’, is an original project whose purpose is to educate and entertain children aged 4-8 through an innovative transmedia ecosystem made of: online and mobile community and videogames, web and tv cartoon animation series, interactive eBooks, live events, toys and…