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: February 2012
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Author Hill speaks on race, place, and identity at ‘City of Words’ series University of Toronto, Scharborough 2012-02-06 Kurt Kleiner Writer Lawrence Hill has always felt attachment to people, not places. Nevertheless, the place he grew up – Don Mills in the early 1960s – shaped him as a person and as a writer. …
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A Philippa Schuyler moment On an Overgrown Path 2011-08-02 John McLaughlin Williams Philippa Schuyler. Just hearing the name takes me back to a place in my childhood I have not revisited in memory more than a couple of times in decades. Philippa Schuyler’s name was but one of dozens lodged in my parent’s large sheet…
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The Souls of Mixed Folk [Review: Samatar] Sofia Samatar 2012-02-05 Sofia Samatar This book, by Stanford professor Michele Elam, comes at you with a provocative title and a provocative cover. The title, a reference to the brilliant and still relevant 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Du Bois, is provocative because it…
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Film retells Lovings’ love story The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-06 Jonas Beals Mildred and Richard Loving were probably the last people you would expect to make legal history, but in 1967 they won a U.S. Supreme Court case that nullified laws against interracial marriage in Virginia and the 15 other states that still banned…
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‘The Loving Story’ to premiere in Caroline County The Free Lance-Star Fredericksburg, Virginia 2012-02-04 Jonas Beals Caroline County will get the red-carpet treatment Saturday evening. HBO, Comcast and the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia are hosting an invitation-only screening of the new HBO documentary “The Loving Story” at the Caroline County Community Services Center.…
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Monstrous Sex: The Erotic in Naomi Mitchinson’s Science Fiction Michigan Feminist Studies Volume 16 (2002): Deviance Sarah Shaw “Oh fuck sex!” replied celebrated science-fiction novelist Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) when Jill Benton, one of her biographers, asked for her views on the topic during the 1980s. Despite Mitichison’s attempts to move the discussion of her body…