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: September 2016
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Uchinanchu: The Art of Laura Kina Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture California Lutheran University 120 Memorial Parkway Thousand Oaks, California 91360 2016-05-23 On view: June 10–October 30, 2016 Artist’s Talk: Thursday, September 29, 2016 | 6 p.m. PDT Image: Laura Kina, Hello Kitty, acrylic on canvas and denim, assorted fabrics, t-shirts from the artist’s…
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This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.
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Opinion: “White spaces” are everywhere – including ARC The American River Current Sacramento, California 2016-09-26 Shiavon Chatman Imagine being alone in a place where there was no one who looked like you or understood your experiences. Imagine having a conversation with someone who assumed the actions and behaviors of people who looked like you and…
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Black Journalist T. Thomas Fortune Prophetically Predicts Today’s Political Climate African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-09-24 Shawn Leigh Alexander, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Director of the Langston Hughes Center University of Kansas Newspaper editor and former slave T. Thomas Fortune formed the National Afro-American League, heralded as the first major…
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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians by Angela Pulley Hudson (review) The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 6, Number 3, September 2016 pages 439-442 DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2016.0058 Adam Pratt, Assistant Professor of History University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White…
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Meta-Melodrama: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Appropriates Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon Modern Drama Volume 59, Number 3, Fall 2016 pages 285-305 Verna A. Foster, Professor of English Loyola University Chicago In adapting the nineteenth-century melodrama The Octoroon, Jacobs-Jenkins both satirizes Boucicault’s racial assumptions and emulates his aesthetic principles to produce a meta-melodrama, a play that at once celebrates…
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This Movie Was Nearly Lost. Now They’re Fighting to Save It. The New York Times 2016-09-23 John Anderson Richard Romain in the 1982 film “Cane River.” Credit IndieCollect When it debuted in 1982, “Cane River” was already a rarity: a drama by an independent black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black patrons and dealing with race…