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: September 2014
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Making Race Count in the Census New York University King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South New York, New York 10012 Wednesday, 2014-09-17, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Are Hispanics becoming white? Are Latin@s a race? How can we account for race and ethnicity in ways that best represent our interests? Can…
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From Harlem to Shenzhen: One Jamaican-Chinese Woman’s Quest to Find Her Family The Wall Street Journal 2014-09-02 Debra Bruno Growing up in New York’s Harlem, Paula Williams Madison knew she had a Chinese grandfather, even though she had never met him. When people found out, she says, most of them would make comments such as…
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A mixed-race German confronts white supremacists face-to-face, including the Klan Public Radio International 2014-09-15 Leo Hornak, Producer Susie Blair, Producer Most people would probably run for shelter if confronted with death threats. But Mo Asumang had a different impulse: “I don’t want to hide — it’s not my nature.” Asumang — who is half-German and…
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The Morristown Festival of Books is Proud to Announce the Authors for September 26 and 27, 2014 Morristown Festival of Books: Where Readers & Authors Meet Morristown, New Jersey 2014-06-24 We are pleased to present our Friday night Keynote speaker and 21 authors appearing at the all-day Saturday Festival! They will be sharing their perspectives…
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Footprints of my other 2012 52 minutes Claude Haffner Born to a mixed race couple in the DRC, then Zaire, in the 1970s, Claude Haffner is part Congolese, part French. From her family home in France, Claude Haffner embarks on a journey in search of her African identity. She is of mixed race, born in…
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Argentina Rediscovers Its African Roots The New York Times 2014-09-12 Michael T. Luongo The chapel in the small lakeside resort community of Chascomús is at best underwhelming. Its whitewashed brick exterior is partly obstructed by a tangle of vines and bushes, and its dim, one-room interior is no more majestic than its facade. Wooden pews…
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Juxta: A film by Hiroko Yamazaki Women Make Movies 1989 29 minutes BW, 16mm/DVD Order No. W99356 Hiroko Yamazaki This beautiful drama observes the psychological effects of racism on two children of Japanese women and American servicemen. Thirty-one year old Kate, the daughter of a Japanese/white mixed marriage visits her childhood friend, Ted, a Japanese-Black…
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Claude Haffner: “Black Here, White There” | “Footprints of My Other” African Women in Cinema Blog 2012-03-15 Beti Ellerson, Director/Directrice Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema Interview with Claude Haffner and translation from French by Beti Ellerson, March 2012. An interview with Franco-Congolese filmmaker Claude Haffner by Beti Ellerson regarding…
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Creoles and Melungeons: More Important Than Ever to America Melungeon Heritage Association: One People, All Colors 2014-08-22 Nick Douglas The unique origins of Creoles and Melungeons parallel and complement each other. Their genesis is a uniquely American phenomenon. Creoles, like Melungeons, are a race of black, white and Native American people. Most Creoles and Melungeons…