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: January 2023
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She was born Eunice Westmoreland in Miami, Florida in 1914. She would use many names during a diverse career as a showgirl, musician, orchestra leader and actress. Both her parents were of African American heritage and she was gorgeous.
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The term “miscegenation” was coined in an 1864 pamphlet by an anonymous author.
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The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.
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This Other Eden, A Novel W. W. Norton & Company 2023-01-24 224 pages 6.3 x 9.4 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-324-03629-6 Paul Harding, Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature State University of New York at Stony Brook From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga…
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An escaped slave navigates the white world in a suspenseful bid for freedom.
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Doublings and Dissociation in Nella Larsen’s Passing and Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities Volume 27, 2022 – Issue 3-4: after modernism: women, gender, race. issue editor: pelagia goulimari Pages 182-198 DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2093974 Jean Wyatt, Professor of English; Emerita Occidental College, Los Angeles, California In this paper I explore the…
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For readers of The Vanishing Half, a hidden gem from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey toward self-acceptance while passing as white in 1920s New York City.
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“What’s interesting is when I started ballet at 13 years old, I was told I had everything that it took to be a ballet dancer, physically, artistically. So that’s why there’s kind of this interesting dichotomy when I think about Black women specifically in ballet and the language that’s being used in telling us that…
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Ruth Ann Koesun, a principal dancer in American Ballet Theater who epitomized the company’s early eclectic profile by excelling in roles that ranged from Billy the Kid’s Mexican sweetheart to the “Bluebird” pas de deux from “The Sleeping Beauty,” died on Feb. 1 in Chicago. She was 89.