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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Author, Yaba Blay, to appear on CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon CNN NewsRoom: Weekend Primetime 2012-01-14, 19:00-20:00 EST Don Lemon, Host Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Lafayette College (1)ne Drop author, Yaba Blay, will appear on the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon on Sunday, January 15, 2012 during the 7:00…
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Passing Third World Newsreel 1995 Black & White 9 minutes United States Kym Ragusa The videomaker’s grandmother recounts the tale of a trip she and her lover took through the segregated South of the 1950s. As her story unfolds—revealing as much in silences and gaps as it does in its actual narrative—a blues and gospel…
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Fuori/Outside Third World Newsreel 1997 Color 12 minutes United States Kym Ragusa In Fuori/Outside the videomaker, a woman of African American and Italian American descent, examines her relationship with her Italian American grandmother. The lives of the two women are inextricably linked to local geographies; family stories embedded in the walls of tenement buildings and…
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2011 Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law by Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig: “According to Our Hearts: What Does the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Case Teach Us about Race, Law, and Family?” University of California, Davis School of Law Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom 2011-11-08, 16:00-18:00 PST (Local Time) Run Time: 01:05:58 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J.…
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Dreams of a Life The Arts Desk 2011-12-14 Nick Hasted Carol Morley’s moving documentary brings a dead woman lost in London back to life The decontamination squad scraped the remains of 38-year-old ex-City professional Joyce Vincent from her seat, in front of a TV which had flickered unseen for three years. They took her wrapped…
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Dances With Aliens? Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins shares her thoughts on multiracialism, media and James Cameron’s blockbuster film “Avatar” at the 2011 American Studies Association Conference.