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 2021
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Getting into Character: Racial Passing and the Limitations of Performativity and Performance in Britt Bennett’s The Vanishing Half Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Published online 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2021.2007838 Ohad Reznick, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel Judith Butler’s notion of performativity has been criticized because of…
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Kelly McWilliams is the author of the upcoming “Mirror Girls,” a novel about sisterhood and passing.
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The performer will be the first Black woman to enter the mausoleum, in recognition of her wartime work
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In 1741, Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest searching for the origin of “blackness.” The results help us see how Enlightenment thinkers justified chattel slavery.
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The initial move across the country to change the formula was initially sparked about five years ago by medical students who raised questions about using race in medical tests and the influence it can have on a patient’s treatment. Paul Palevsky, president of the National Kidney Foundation, said the inclusion of race sends a “wrong…
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With a remarkable fusion of substance and style, Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel unfolds inner lives along with social crises.
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The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price University of Arkansas Press September 2015 Produced by James Greeson Associate Producer – Dale Carpenter Narrated by Julia Sampson Running Time: 00:57:00 DVD ISBN: 978-1-68226-006-7 Born in 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas to extraordinary parents, Florence B. Price became the first African-American woman to…
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“Imperial Educación” examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries’ citizens.