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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The American movie industry has a long, problematic history with stories about racial passing. But the actor-writer-director Rebecca Hall is trying to tell a new kind of story.
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Mixed-Race Melodrama: Métisse Dr Zélie Asava: Rethinking Representation 2020-12-14 Zélie Asava, Academic. Speaker. Author. Métisse [Mixed-Race] (Kassovitz, France, 1993) adheres to the ethics of beur cinema by reimagining the French nuclear family as black, mixed and white through its central characters. As a pioneering work it is flawed but, by directly engaging with issues of…
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Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States American Journal of Biological Anthropology Volume 175, Issue 2, June 2021 (Special Issue: Race reconciled II: Interpreting and communicating biological variation and race in 2021) pages 422-436 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24212 Elizabeth A. DiGangi, Associate Professor of Anthropology Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton,…
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Rebecca Hall’s Passing Says The Most In The Silences Elle 2021-11-12 Christine Jean-Baptiste Montréal, Quebec Passing opens on a busy street in 1920s New York. A mysterious woman (Tessa Thompson) is roaming through Manhattan. In this part of town, she anxiously hides behind a wide-brimmed hat covering half her face. It’s every bit intentional. When…
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“What Is The Emotional Legacy Of A Life Lived In Hiding?” Rebecca Hall Honours Her Family’s History In Her New Film Passing Vogue UK 2021-10-29 Rebecca Hall Molly Cranna For her directorial debut, the British actor brings to life the novel that helped unlock the meaning of her family’s heritage. The elucidation of a family’s…
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For over 300 years, socially defined notions of “race” have shaped human lives around the globe—but the category has no biological foundation.
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Film Screening with Director Ines Johnson-Spain in Attendance: “Becoming Black” Black Germans2021-11-17 Sponsored by Waterloo Centre for German, German at University of Toronto, and Africana Studies at Rutgers University-CamdenNovember 17, 2021 SYNOPSIS: Becoming Black (dir. Ines Johnson-Spain, 2019, 91 min.): In the 1960s, the East German Sigrid falls in love with Lucien from Togo, one of several African…
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The Balance Tips Interlude Press 2021-10-05 280 pages 6″x9″ ISBN (Print): 978-1-951954-01-7 ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-951954-02-4 Joy Huang-Iris Fay Wu Goodson is a 25-year-old queer, multiracial woman who documents the identity journeys of other New Yorkers. She finds her videography work meaningful, but more importantly, it distracts her from investigating the challenges of her own life…