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: March 2016
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“Look, a [picture]!”: Visuality, race, and what we do not see Quarterly Journal of Speech Volume 102, Issue 1, 2016 pages 62-78 DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2015.1136074 Elizabeth Kaszynski Department of Communication and Culture Indiana University This article argues that understanding vision and visuality as associated but distinct terms has significant implications for the ways in which we…
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Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women The Huffington Post 2016-03-02 Zeba Blay, Voices Culture Writer It highlights women who are Afro-Brazilian and proud. For the past two years, Brazilian journalist Weudson Ribeiro has been documenting the beauty of Afro-Brazilian women by photographing spontaneous portraits of them in an ongoing project. The…
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Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots NBC News 2016-03-02 Young Jin Kim Sarah Savidakis, 55, lived in South Korea until she was nine years old, at which time she was adopted by a Connecticut family. For Savidakis, who says she has grappled with the effects of early childhood trauma, memories of her…
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As Dear White People receives much deserved praise for its “diverse” representations of Black characters, the conversation on mixed race identity fails to be fully engaged with and must continue. The hypervisibility of mixed race women as video vixens, eroticized Others, or Tragic Mulattas flattens the complexities of negotiating a mixed-race identity within a Black-White…
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For Artur Santoro, 21, identifying as black is about being honest with himself—a process similar to coming out as gay. “I had to come out of the closet twice—once as gay, and once as black,” Artur tells me. He says growing up with a white dad and a “light-skinned black” mom made it difficult to…
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“The Free State of Jones” on Film: A Q&A with Victoria Bynum The Society of Civil War Historians 2016-03-01 Megan Kate Nelson This May, STX Entertainment will release the film Free State of Jones, which tells the story of the Knight Company and the Jones County rebellion, a Civil War history first told by Victoria…
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‘Blaxicans’ photos explore Angelenos straddling two worlds Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-03-01 Emanuella Grinberg, Writer/Producer CNN Digital Blaxicans of L.A. is an Instagram account that grew into a show at Los Angeles’ Avenue 50 Studio during Black History Month. The exhibit includes portraits with captions detailing personal histories and experiences with colorism and self-identity. Ken…
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That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and struck me for reasons I couldn’t quite place at the time, reasons deeply rooted in my struggle to navigate my identity and subjectivity.