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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Day: August 25, 2010
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The New Hollywood Racelessness: Only the Fast, Furious, (and Multiracial) Will Survive Cinema Journal Volume 44, Number 2, Winter 2005 pages 50-67 Mary C. Beltrán, Associate Professor of Media Studies University of Texas, Austin This article interrogates the rise of the “multiculti” action film and the casting of multiracial actors as Hollywood action film protagonists.…
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“Skinfolks” and “Kinfolks”: Racial Passing in American Films 1930-1960 Department of American Studies University of Virginia Summer 2002 Introduction Characters with a desire to become something that they are not in order to escape their realities have been present from the earliest American films to the present. The popular encyclopedia of American cinema, Videohound, categorizes…
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‘A modelling competition with a difference’ is being pioneered by social enterprise mix-d:™ at MMU’s business incubator, Innospace News and Events Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Manchester, England 2010-08-02 A MODELLING competition – the first of its kind in the UK to find the mixed race face of 2010 is being organised by social enterprise,…