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: December 2015
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First Baptist unveils historic marker The Tennesseean Nashville, Tennessee 2015-12-09 Jennifer Easton If people of faith go to First Baptist Church on East Winchester Street looking for a sign, they’ll find it. Sumner County’s oldest known African-American church celebrated another milestone Dec. 6 with the dedication of a historic marker commemorating the 150-year-old church’s early…
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Broyard was, according to Henry Louis Gates’s 1996 New Yorker article “The Passing of Anatole Broyard,” some kind of a trickster. The word Creole requires rigorous semantic handling. Just as New Orleans became the home of French, Arcadian, and Haitian refugees, the very word Creole carries an underlying sense of evasion, a connotation of which Broyard clearly took advantage.…
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I also recognize there are governments, institutions and individuals in this country that systematically define blackness visually, often assigning economic, social and legal penalties along the way. This is America’s reality; one that must be reckoned with. Amid such enduring color bias, I’m arming my brown-skinned son with a robust sense of racial and cultural…
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“Conventional wisdom tells us that a history of passing cannot be written: those who passed left no trace in the historical record, and only novelists, playwrights, and poets could write about this clandestine practice. But I believed that the sources were out there, just waiting to be discovered. So I went into the archives looking…
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Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States
Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States Chapter 16: a community of Tennessee writers, readers & passersby 2015-12-11 Aram Goudsouzian, Professor of History University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee In A Chosen Exile, Allyson Hobbs analyzes how and why black people passed as white throughout American history. An…
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No one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Lottery, Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann’s mother did not want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive.
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Mistura for the fans: performing mixed-race Japanese Brazilianness in Japan Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 36, Issue 6, 2015 pages 710-728 DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1095714 Zelideth María Rivas, Assistant Professor of Japanese Department of Modern Languages Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia In this article, I examine fans’ consumption of mixed-race Japanese Brazilian female bodies in Japan. The article…
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Book Talk – A Chosen Exile: The History of Racial Passing National Civil Rights Museum: At the Lorraine Motel 450 Mulberry Street Memphis, Tennesee 38103 2015-12-17, 18:00-20:00 CST (Local Time) Allyson Hobbs, a professor of History at Stanford University, has written a remarkable book entitled [A] Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America.…