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: August 2017
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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson discusses her compelling life story with Scotland’s Makar, the poet and novelist Jackie Kay.
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Last year’s most talked-about, most unforgettable production is returning to Woolly for a limited three-week run: “An Octoroon” by new MacArthur “Genius Grant”-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins!
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“When you are writing a novel, you are always trying to submerge yourself in a dream state, and New York was constantly waking me up from that state,” says Danzy Senna.
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During the 2016 election, award-winning journalist and writer Soledad O’Brien charged cable news and media companies of profiting off hate speech normalized by then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign. What made for good TV ratings did not make for good journalism.
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He built his career on the systematic oppression of blacks and Native Americans, becoming one of the country’s most influential white supremacists. For more than three decades, from 1912 until 1946, Walter Ashby Plecker used his position as head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics to champion policies designed to protect what he considered a master…
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The alchemy of American music as it relates to Native Americans is such a voluminous subject that, inevitably, the fascinating “Rumble” can’t do it justice.
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Passing: Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Class Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2017-07-17 379 pages Dana Christine Volk Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In ASPECT: Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural…
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“Blood Will Tell” reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934…
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Writers explore how and why the phenomenon of “passing” both shocks and fascinates.
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Danzy Senna, “New People, A Novel” (New York: Riverhead, 2017)