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: March 2011
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A Chat with Kat: Marissa Hui, President of HapaSC Her Campus 2011-02-28 Katharine Goldman I remember clearly the first time someone used the term “hapa”: I was a freshman, waiting for Campus Cruiser in front of New/North, when a random guy asked me if I was hapa. Not knowing what it meant, I asked for…
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College Essay Part II, Unabridged: The Undergraduate Years Amherst College The Amherst Story Project Fall 2008 Brunnell Velázquez ’11 I enjoy looking at myself in the mirror. Lately, I find that the bathroom mirrors in Morrow dormitory give off the clearest reflections of my gorgeous, most handsome features. Since it is not in my nature…
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Brooklyn Museum Acquires Eighteenth-Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Dominica Mixed Race Colonial Elite The Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052 T(718) 638-5000, F(718) 501-6134 January 2011 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs.…
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Author and scholar Adele Logan Alexander appears at the 2010 National Book Festival 2010 National Book Festival Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2010-09-25 Running Time: 00:32:45 Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University Speaker Biography: Adele Logan Alexander’s research and teaching incorporate the black Atlantic world, African-American history, family history, gender issues and…
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Shades of White The New York Times 2011-02-25 Raymond Arsenault, Visiting Scholar, Florida State University Study Center in London and John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp.…
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Tracing lives of three ‘white’ families and their black forebears The Boston Globe 2011-02-20 Dan Cryer, Globe Correspondent Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Randall Lee Gibson, an urbane, Yale-educated Confederate general, mocked black…
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Sister Act Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online 2011-03-02 Topher Forhecz, Staff Writer Montgomery College and Doorway Arts Ensemble presents the sisterly story ‘Tether’ When Julie Taiwo Oni wrote the play “Tether,” she did so not only to examine her relationship with her twin sister Jessica Kehinde Ngo, but also to answer a recurring question.…
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Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre present: “Tether” Doorway Arts Ensemble February 2011 Emily Morrison, Publicist Office: 703-892-0801 sex, race, religion, tether ball… twin sisters are coming of age [2011-02-18 through 2011-03-13] Bethesda, Maryland Doorway Arts Ensemble presents Tether, a World Premier play by Julie Taiwo Oni, co-produced with Arts Alive Theatre Artistic Director,…
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Honoring Our Legacy: Past, Present and Future, RED/BLACK Connections Indian Voices October 2010 pages 8-9 Black Native American Association’s First Multi-Cultural National Pow Wow California State University Eastbay-Hayward September 18-19, 2010 On Friday, September 17, a workshop examined the Red/Black relationships and how to improve them. Noted participants on the panel included Black Seminole Lonnie…
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Mothering Children of African Descent: Hopes, Fears and Strategies of White Birth Mothers The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (November 2007) pages 62-76 Annie Stopford, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Adjunct Research Fellow University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Introduction It is often acknowledged that African identities are “complex, contested and contingent,”…