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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Month: August 2010
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Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970’s Boston. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can’t be sisters: Birdie appears to be white, while Cole is dark…
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American novelist & memoirist Danzy Senna to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers’ Series University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Wednesday, 2011-03-16 19:00 EST (Local Time) Danzy Senna is the author of two novels and a memoir that focus on issues of race, gender and cultural identity. Her debut…
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Werner Sollors to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers’ Series University of Richmond Westhampton Living Room, Westhampton Center Richmond, Virginia 2010-09-30 16:30 EDT (Local Time) Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies; Director of the History of American Civilization Program Harvard University Werner…