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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The first American-born stage magician and ventriloquist was an African American named Richard Potter. Potter’s stage career (1811–1835) coincided with the transition from an entertainment culture grounded in a metropolitan Atlantic world to an American show business that was nationalist and racist. This essay traces Potter’s strategies and experiences within that transformation.
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One Drop of Love preceded by I’ve Just had a Dream The 18th Annual Roxbury International Film Festival Museum of Fine Arts Boston Barbara and Theodore Alfond Auditorium (Auditorium G36) Avenue of the Arts 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 2016-06-30, 20:00-21:35 EDT (Local Time) Film still from One Drop of Love I’ve Just had…
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A New Movie About Bob Kaufman, a Jewish African-American Street Poet Shrouded in Myth Tablet 2016-06-24 Jake Marmer And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead does little to dispel the mystery surrounding the artist, which is why it works. Bob Kaufman Alley, in San Francisco’s neighborhood of North Beach, is tiny—narrow and hardly a…
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President Obama is an extraordinary figure who has done some good things in bad times, and some great things under impossible circumstances. As the first black president he has faced enormous difficulties and has had to weather a steady downpour of bad faith from the right wing and racist resistance from bigoted quarters of the…
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Mixed-race in Oregon The Asian Reporter Portland, Oregon Volume 26, Number 12 (2016-06-20) ISSN: 1094-9453 page 6, columns 2-3 Dmae Roberts, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist I received some exciting news this month. I was selected as one of the speakers for the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project, a program that brings people together to…
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These 2 Ads Might Say Everything About How Global Racism Really Is Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-06-26 Sharon H. Chang sigh. SIGH. Siiiiiiiiigh. Alright that’s done. I want (pause) — well I don’t want, but feel like I need to show you two TV ads…
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Matthew McConaughey Can’t Stop Being a Badass White Savior in The Free State of Jones The Stranger 2016-06-22 Ijeoma Oluo Watch the magical negroes heal Matthew McConaughey from his wounds that he received while badassing his way into exile. Ever since the end of the first season of True Detective I’ve really been wanting more…
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With “A Seminole Legend,” Betty Mae Jumper joins the ranks of Native American women who are coming forward to tell their life experiences.
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Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Hispanófila Volume 132 (2001) pages 25-42 Lee Joan Skinner, Associate Professor of Spanish Claremont McKenna College The two most powerful critical paradigms for dealing with the relationship between literature and national identity in nineteenth—century Latin America have been those established by Benedict Anderson and Doris Sommer. In Anderson’s…