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 2016
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A Ballerina’s Tale By Nelson George | in Dance Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Premieres 2016-02-08 Few dancers reach the highest levels of classical ballet; of that few only a fraction are black women. Against the odds, Misty Copeland has made history by becoming the first African American principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet…
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The mulatta concubine in diaspora is everywhere. She is in representations of Thomas Jefferson’s long-term “relationship” with the enslaved Sally Hemings, begun when she was fourteen and he forty-four (see Gordon-Reed, American Controversy). She is the protagonist who emblemizes Cuban national identity in Cirilo Villaverde’s 1882 novel, Cecilia Valdes: Novela de costumbres cubanas.
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Jay Smooth: The Ill Doctrine, Underground Railroad & Disenfranchised cheese puffs The Katie Halper Show 2016-01-20 Katie Halper, Host On our first episode of the Live Katie Halper Show I front of an audience we talk to Jay Smooth, founder and host of The Underground Railroad and of the Ill Doctrine video series. His videos…
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Episode 16: The Value of Diversity Inflection Point: Conversations with women changing the status quo 2015-09-24 Lauren Schiller, Host Companies are now paying consultants to increase the diversity of their workforce, with an eye on innovation and the bottom line. But is that the only motivation businesses should be considering? We’ll talk with Joelle Emerson,…
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In “Love, Anger, Madness,” Marie Vieux-Chauvet explores the choking fear of life under “Papa Doc” Duvalier.
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“I don’t know if I’m like White, if I’m African American because I am from the Dominican Republic. I was born there,” she said. “My grandmother is like Black…her skin color is Black, but my grandfather was part Chinese…So it’s just like a mixture. So I just really never know what to identify myself.” —Nanyelis…
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Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity The Calvert Journal 2016-02-04 Photography by Liz Johnson Artur Photograph by Liz Johnson Artur “When people ask me about my background I usually start by explaining how my mum is Russian, my dad is Ghanaian and that I was born in…
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When people think of famous Latina women, Jennifer Lopez or Sofia Vergara come to mind. Not Zoe Saldana or Rosario Dawson…