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: November 2016
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Hollywood has long shown discomfort with interracial couples, but change is happening The Los Angeles Times 2016-11-10 Lewis Beale Katherine Houghton puts a flower in Sidney Poitier’s hair in a scene from the film “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.” (Getty Images) In 1967, the same year the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia struck down…
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Family secrets ripple through time when three present-day sisters discover the truth about a young African-American woman passing for white sixty years before. What happens in between is a frank and funny look at the shifting boundaries of tolerance and what identity really means.
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BrownBox Theatre and Sound Theatre Company to Present Encore Reading of BLACK LIKE US Broadway World 2016-11-05 BWW News Desk To celebrate the publication of the play Black Like Us, BrownBox Theatre joins forces with Sound Theatre Company to present an “encore” staged reading of the Gregory Award Winning Play at the Langston Hughes Performing…
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‘Loving’ inspires a DIY Film Festival of miscegenation films and shows you need to see… CinemaInMind: Thinking about film… and other stuff 2016-11-03 Tim Cogshell, Critic At Large Alt Film Guide You don’t need to wait for the local art house to put on a themed film festival. Tim Cogshell, film critic for KPCC’s Filmweek…
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From Raised Eyebrows To Raised Curtains: Rachel Atkins Tackles Racial Identity KUOW.org 94.9 FM: Seattle News & Information Seattle, Washington 2014-02-27 Marcie Sillman, Arts and Culture Reporter Actresses Kia Pierce and Marquicia Dominguez in Rachel Atkins’ play, “Black Like Us.” Credit Courtesy of Annex Theatre/Shane Regan When Rachel Atkins was 7, she and her sisters…
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Reclaiming heritage in modern America Somona State Star Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 2016-11-08 Jahred Nunes, Staff Writer Virginia natives Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were sentenced to a year in state prison after being married in the spring of 1958. The couple was arrested in their bedroom,…
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Whitening, Mixing, Darkening, and Developing: Everything but Indigenous Latin American Research Review Volume 51, Number 3, 2016 pages 142-160 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2016.0038 Juliana Luna Freire, Assistant Professor of Spanish/Portuguese Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts This article analyzes the image of Brazilian Indigenous minority groups as a figurehead in media discourse, which is based on racializing logics…
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Black Brits And Afropeans The Norwich Radical 2016-11-03 Candice Nembhard The black British existence is inherently unique. It not only samples cultural flavours or practices from Africa and the Caribbean but seemingly blends those influences into standardised British behaviour. For many black children in modern Britain, the divide between our race and nationality somehow leaves…
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Multiracial college students’ experiences with multiracial microaggressions Race Ethnicity and Education Published online 2016-11-07 pages 1-17 DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1248836 Jessica C. Harris, Multi-Term Lecturer Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies University of Kansas While research on monoracial college students’ experiences with racial microaggressions increases, minimal, if any, research focuses on multiracial college students’ experiences with…