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: March 2023
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Even as a child, I balked at the stereotype of the Tragic Mulatto.
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‘Moral electricity’: Melvil-Bloncourt and the trans-Atlantic struggle for abolition and equal rights
Little known to historians, the Guadeloupean-born antislavery and equal rights activist Sainte-Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt exemplified the complex trans-Atlantic networks forged for the abolitionist cause across the nineteenth century.
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Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick accused his White adoptive parents of perpetuating racism in their household in an interview with CBS’ Adriana Diaz on Thursday.
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Merle Oberon, a pick for best actress in 1936, was born in Bombay and spent her career passing for white
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The history covered in this exhibit spans from 1851 to 1973 and takes the viewer from the antebellum time through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the modern Civil Rights eras. It tells stories about over 30 people along with photographs and text.
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Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama Rutgers University Press 2023-06-16 194 pages, 8 bw, 3 color 6.12 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 9781978835535 Cloth ISBN: 9781978835542 EPUB ISBN: 9781978835559 Kindle ISBN: 9781978835566 PDF ISBN: 9781978835573 Rena M. Heinrich, Assistant Professor of Theatre Practice University of Southern California Mixed-race Asian American plays are…
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The first biography of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington.
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“Thinking While Black” brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and revolution around the world as young Black teenagers in the late 1960s.
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Mixed-race writers invited to share contribute to groundbreaking celebration of Mixed identity.