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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Black Hebrew Israelites Celebrate Rabbi Who Founded Their Century-Old Movement Forward 2016-06-24 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer This weekend black Israelites will gather across New York City to celebrate their spiritual patriarch — a rabbi from Harlem who helped establish America’s black Hebrew-Israelite movement a century ago. “We thank the Most High for our beloved Chief…
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Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ The New York Times 2016-06-23 A. O. Scott, Film Critic Matthew McConaughey, left, and Jacob Lofland in “Free State of Jones.” Credit Murray Close/STX Entertainment “Free State of Jones” begins on the battlefield, with a flurry of the kind of immersive combat action that…
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Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico’s Costa Chica Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online: 2015-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2015.1094873 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s…
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States of Denial Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-06-04 When Barack Obama was first elected president in 2008, some pundits declared the United States to have finally reached a triumphal post-racial stage, an era of long-awaited racial harmony after the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Yet, almost a decade…
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Legend of the Free State of Jones University Press of Mississippi 2009-10-07 143 pages 3 maps, 7 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches Paper ISBN: 978-1-60473-571-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-60473-572-7 Rudy H. Leverett The original, full accounting of a rebellion in the heart of Dixie A maverick, unionist district in the heart of the…
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Blacks & Jews Entangled The New York Review of Books 2016-07-14 Darryl Pinckney Oreo by Fran Ross, with a foreword by Danzy Senna and an afterword by Harryette Mullen, New Directions, 230 pp., $14.95 (paper) Google wasn’t around when Oreo was first published in 1974. You are hit with Greek mythology and Yiddish right away…
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A brilliant Jamaican-American writer takes on the themes of colonialism, race, myth, and political awakening through the experiences of a light-skinned woman named Clare Savage. The story is one of discovery as Clare moves through a variety of settings – Jamaica, England, America – and encounters people who affect her search for place and self.
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Journey into Speech-A Writer between Two Worlds: An Interview with Michelle Cliff African American Review Volume 28, Number 2, Black Women’s Culture Issue (Summer, 1994) pages 273-281 DOI: 10.2307/3041999 Opal Palmer Adisa, Professor of Creative Writing California College of the Arts Among the subjects Jamaican born writer Michelle Cliff explores in her writings are ancestry,…
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Oral history interview with Benny Andrews, 1968 June 30 Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Andrews, Benny, b. 1930 d. 2006 Painter Active in New York, N.Y. Size: Transcript: 29 pages Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformated in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 12 min. Collection Summary:…
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The Optics of Interracial Sexuality in Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings and Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven College Literature Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 119-148 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2014.0004 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio This essay focuses on the racial…