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: October 2021
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In this article, I provide a close reading of Season 1 of the neo-Victorian TV series “Carnival Row” as both an ambivalent postcolonial and neo-passing narrative.
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Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.
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[Rebecca] Hall’s film [Passing] has cracked open a public conversation about colorism, privilege and secrets. On Twitter, people are sharing stories and black-and-white photographs of a grandmother’s cousins who moved out of state, great-aunts who sneaked back to see their family in secret, relatives who lost their jobs when co-workers informed management about their identities:…
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The stories in “Personal Attention Roleplay” are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the pitfalls of intimacy.
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The Ruin of Everything Paloma Press 2021-10-19 126 pages 5.98 X 9.02 X 0.3 inches 0.43 pounds Paperback ISBN: 978-1734496550 Lara Stapleton The Ruin of Everything tells tales of abandoned children living in adult bodies. Bastards, bi-racial half-siblings, and orphans raised by aunts, they lose their last best love through brokenness like “the impossible loop…
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My Monticello, Fiction Henry Holt & Company (an imprint of Macmillan) 2021-10-05 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781250807151 e-Book ISBN: 9781250807168 Audiobook ISBN: 9781250820723 Compact Disk ISBN: 9781250820716 Jocelyn Nicole Johnson A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting…
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Rebecca Hall’s new film adaptation of the 1929 novel “Passing” has cracked open a public conversation about colorism and privilege.
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In The Problem of the Prism, I argue that activist writers challenged the normalizing of white supremacy and imagined black futurity within the intersections of racial visibility, nation, and culture by transforming and repurposing racist and colorist ideologies. Through a wide range of cultural materials, I recuperate overlooked discourses on race and color by broadening…
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This qualitative interview study investigated the types of parental racial-ethnic socialization messages received by Multiracial American youth over the course of their development.
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A growing number of forensic researchers are questioning how the field interprets the geographic ancestry of human remains.