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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For the first time ever, Dr. Maria Root reads her Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage on video.
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High Yellow (1965, trailer) [Starring Cynthia Hull] YouTube Department of Afro-American Research Arts Culture 2017-06-29 Cynthia Wood, a light-skinned 17-year-old girl, tries to pass as white after getting hired by wealthy movie magnate Mr. Langley, who has problems with his spoiled wife and promiscuous teenage daughter and son. Watch the full movie (01:20:11) here.
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Our next CMRS Book Talk is right around the corner! We’re featuring “Mixed-Race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future,” by Dr. Jennifer Patrice Sims and our very own Chinelo L. Njaka. Join live and be part of the Q&A!
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Rebecca Carroll talks with us about her latest book, “Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir” that walks us through her struggle with race and identity as she navigates life in a white world.
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Rebecca Carroll discusses her new memoir that examines transracial adoption and forging her own Black identity.
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Gail Lukasik’s life was turned upside down when she discovered her mother was mixed race but had ‘passed’ as white to escape racial segregation in the US.