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: July 2013
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Those who profess Christianity as the worldwide religion and yet justify the operation of a color line disprove and discredit their pretension. If Christianity is to be a biological religion, it cannot be universal. The ideal of Christianity is that all of its devotees, regardless of ethnic deviation, are baptised in one spirit. Spiritual kinship…
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Black Indians: An American Story Rich-Heape Films 2001 60 Minutes Close Captioned NTSC All Regions Steven R. Heape – Executive Producer/Producer Chip Richie – Director/Producer James Earl Jones – Narrator Neville Brothers – Soundtrack Daniel Blake Smith – Screenwriter Howard Tyler – Editor “Black Indians: An American Story”— (as seen on ABC) brings to light…
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Photographer Interview: Albert Chong Dodge & Burn: diversity in photography history 2011-02-08 Qiana Mestrich, Visual Artist + Writer Dodge & Burn: Where are you from? Albert Chong: I am originally from Kingston, Jamaica by way of Brooklyn, NY, San Diego, CA and presently Boulder, CO. D&B: What kind of photography do you shoot and how…
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Capturing the Spirit World on Film: Albert Chong’s artistic recipe blends Jamaica, Catholicism, Santeria and America in an eclectic artistic stew The Los Angeles Times 1993-10-10 Leah Ollman When photographer and installation artist Albert Chong was about 6 years old, his parents bought a new house in Kingston, Jamaica. Chong’s father invited a Catholic priest…
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The Flesh of Amalgamation: Reconsidering the Position (and the Labors) of Blackness American Quarterly Volume 65, Number 2, June 2013 pages 437-446 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2013.0021 Tryon P. Woods, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Crime & Justice Studies University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance and the Ruses of Memory. By Tavia Nyong’o. Minneapolis:…
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Blackness/Mixedness: Contestations over Crossing Signs Cultural Critique Number 54 (Spring, 2003) pages 178-212 Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and American Studies Yale University While studies of cultural syncretism, transnationalism, and “hybridity” have lately become all the rage, there is one area in which claims of racially “hybrid” identity are still subtly resisted,…
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I first met Audre in 1984, when I was 22. She told me her grandfather had been Scottish, and that I didn’t need to choose between being Scottish and being black. “You can be both. You can call yourself an Afro Scot,” she said in her New York drawl. Lorde was Whitman-like in her refusal to…