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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Day: November 15, 2017
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Zendaya has booked what Deadline calls a hot pitch package on the street right now. The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, “The Gilded Years.”
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The hot pitch package on the street is “A White Lie,” an adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel “The Gilded Years.” The book is a psychological thriller built around the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned African-American woman.
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New data released in October by Statistics Canada reveals a surprising spike in Canadians identifying as Métis.
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A ground-breaking, seminal work, “Black Tudors” challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was all but inevitable and forces us to re-examine the seventeenth century to determine what caused perceptions to change so radically.
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The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law’s Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic Chapter in: India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s Palgrave Macmillan pages 75-108 Published online 2017-11-11 Online ISBN: 978-3-319-62334-4 Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62333-7 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62334-4_3 Rosemarie Zagarri, Professor of History George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Thomas Law was a high-ranking administrator with the British…
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Well-meaning mixed people can also perpetuate the ideology of White supremacy. In 2007, I co-created a podcast exploring mixed identity. Each week, we discussed our and our guests’ responses to the ‘what are you’ question, and other common experiences of mixedness. We had a decent following and published episodes weekly. Then, a dear friend told…
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Oral history said she was descended from a president and an enslaved woman. But what would her DNA say?