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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Runnymede film nominated for Limelight Award Runnymede Trust 2012-05-10 Clench, a Runnymede short film written and directed by Riffat Ahmed, has been nominated in the Best Drama category at this year’s Limelight Film Awards, to be held on 14 June 2012. Made as part of the Generation 3.0 project, the film tells the story…
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Race and History in Brazil (Denying Brazil / Aleijadinho: Passion, Glory and Torment) Facets Multi-Media 2000 (Release date 2011-02-22) 192 minutes Brazil Product Code: DV100942 (2-DVD set) Joel Zito Araújo Geraldo Santos Pereira Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-disc set. Joel Zito Araújo’s documentary…
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A five-year-old girl suddenly appears on the doorstep of a well-to-do Hamburg family. The members of the multi-generational, white household react differently to the arrival of Toxi, who is black, the daughter of an African-American G.I. and a white German woman who has died.
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Clara como el Agua PBS Online Film Festival 2012-03-05 Duration: 00:12:20 Fernanda Rossi, Director She’s white. She’s also black. Mostly, she’s rejected. Clara is the only light-skinned and clear-eyed girl in an all-black neighborhood in Puerto Rico. The children tease her endlessly, telling her that her father is some “gringo” tourist with whom her mother…
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None of the Above Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1994 23 minutes Erika Surat Andersen University of Southern California None of the Above is a documentary about people of mixed racial heritage based on the filmmaker’s own search for identity and community. Ms. Andersen, whose mother is (Asian) Indian and father is…
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Rumblings of The Earth: Wifredo Lam, His Work and Words Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1996 23 minutes Denise Byrd Awards San Antonio CINEFEST, 1996 Latin American Studies Association, 1995 The Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam played a leading role in bringing the art of the non-white world to the attention of the…
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Seoul II Soul Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1999 25 minutes Hak J. Chung Produced at USC School of Cinema & Television Directed by Hak J. Chung Korean American filmmaker Hak J. Chung explores his own identity by taking a close look at a very engaging family. The Yates’ household consists of…
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Are You an Indian? Public Broadcasting Service Independent Lens Premiere Date: 2011-11-17 Duration: 00:05:25 Though their ethnicities are mixed, the Wampanoag take pride in their tribal heritage. In this companion piece to the documentary film We Still Live Here—Âs Nutayuneân, Wampanoag tribal members discuss how their multicultural heritage both complicates and enriches their identities as…