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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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition Yale University Press 2016-10-25 264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 7 b/w illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780300204711 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Edited by: John R. McKivigan, Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis Peter P. Hinks Heather L. Kaufman,…
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It is probably doing a disservice to ourselves as Americans to oversimplify issues that cannot, by their very nature, be simple. I have shared examples of passing in America that demonstrate that this behavior is neither new nor unusual. Yes, the image of Rachel Dolezal has meaning. She is consciously constructing blackness with, I believe,…
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Passing in the Age of Rachel Dolezal, or Is Everyone Catfishing? Response: The Digital Journal of Popular Culture Scholarship Issue One (November 2016) Judy Phagan, Associate Professor of English St. Joseph’s College, New York Rachel Doležal It was revealed in the New York Times and on national television in the summer of 2015 that Africana…
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“We Were Married on the Second Day of June, and the Police Came After Us the 14th of July.” The Washingtonian 2016-11-02 Hillary Kelly, Design & Style Editor Richard and Mildred Loving. Photograph by Grey Villet. An oral history, nearly 50 years later, of the landmark Virginia case that legalized interracial marriage—and is the…
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How Trevor Noah went from biracial youth in S. Africa to leading light on U.S. TV The Washington Post 2016-11-12 Karen Heller, National Features Writer “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah has a new memoir about growing up mixed race in apartheid South Africa. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) NEW YORK — Trump. Trump. Clinton. The Obamas…
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Opinion/Commentary: The facts behind loving, law, and ‘Loving’ The Daily Progress Charlottesville, Virginia 2016-11-13 Jeff E. Schapiro, Politics columnist Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia Focus Features via AP Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga protray an interracial couple from Virginia whose romance and marraiage made history. The story or Richard and Mildred Loving is told, Hollywood-style in…
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‘Loving’ revisits a landmark Supreme Court case with radical restraint The Washington Post 2016-11-10 Ann Hornaday, Film Critic ‘Loving’ is a quietly radical movie. A portrait of Richard and Mildred Loving, who became unwitting activists for interracial marriage when they wed in 1958, this gentle, deeply affecting story dispenses with the usual conventions of stirring appeals…
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Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s victory? New Statesman 2016-11-09 Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor A narrative that attributes Trump’s triumph to the “working class” forgets the role of racism, sexism and the right-wing media. As it became clear that Donald Trump had won Pennsylvania, putting the presidency in the grasp of those tiny hands,…