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: June 2016
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Book Launch: A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs The Powerhouse Arena 37 Main Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Telephone: 718.666.3049 Wednesday 2016-06-15, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) Focusing on individuals and their experiences, Allyson Hobbs examines how racial passing became both a strategy for survival and an avenue…
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My thesis examines the similar intersections of hybridity that are embodied in both representations of monstrosity and the politics surrounding people of mixed-race.
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Karin Tanabe: THE GILDED YEARS Busboys and Poets Langston Room 2021 14th Street, NW (14 & V Street, NW) Washington, D.C. 20009 Tuesday, 2016-06-14, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Karin Tanabe to present the new book “The Gilded Years.” A Politico journalist turned novelist, Tanabe…
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Whiteness is provisional and cannibalistic. The imposition of whiteness is based on falsehoods and conflation. White supremacy is a conglomerate forged through fear, colonialism, imperialism and anti-Blackness, not through the purity of blood. The time has come not to seek access to farcical social constructs used to oppress, but instead to seek liberation through rejection…
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Yara Shahidi, the Iranian-American Star of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Breaking Stereotypes On & Off Screen Muftah 2016-06-03 Alex Shams Over the last two years, the hit ABC sitcom “Black-ish” has deftly explored issues of race, class, and gender in the United States through the eyes of an upper-middle class, African-American family. The show has received rave…
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The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Including Previously Uncollected Letters Syracuse University Press 2016 360 pages 2 black-and-white illustrations, appendix, notes, index 7 x 10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8156-3446-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8156-1068-7 ebook ISBN: 978-0-8156-5369-1 J. W. Loguen (1813-1872) Edited and with a Critical Introduction…