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: January 2012
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The number of children born out of the widespread practice of sexual intimacy forced the colonial administration and the Belgian Parliament to debate what they termed the problème des métis, “the mulatto problem.” The issue was the treatment of the mulatto offspring of these unions: whether they should endure the same status as the rest…
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Interview with Kym Ragusa: (Passing) Reel New York: Season 2 thirteen: WNET New York From Week Four (May 1997) Kathy High, Series Curator Series curator Kathy High conducted this telephone interview with Kym Ragusa in May, 1997. Q: The first question I’d like to ask you, Kym, is what prompted you to make the piece?…
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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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Documenting Race and Gender: Kym Ragusa Discusses “Passing” and “Fuori/Outside” Women’s Studies Quarterly Volume 30, Numbers 1/2, Looking Across the Lens: Women’s Studies and Film (Spring – Summer, 2002) pages 213-220 Livia Tenzer, Managing Editor Social Text In her two award-winning short documentaries Passing (1996) and Fuori/Outside (1997), New York-based filmmaker Kym Ragusa explores the…
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Afro-Latino forum fosters dialogue on colorism, lived experiences The Tufts Daily The independent student newspaper of Tufts University 2011-12-01 Brionna Jimerson Gabrielle Hernandez Academic study and lived experience converged last night at the Afro−Latino Roundtable Forum, where an assembly of over 50 students, faculty and visiting speakers participated in a dialogue about the Afro−Latino experience…