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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Tag: Allyson Hobbs
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In a Novelist’s World, You Choose Your Race The New York Times 2014-08-11 Felicia R. Lee In the weak light of a February afternoon, Kelly Thorndike has a strange chance encounter in a Baltimore parking lot with Martin Lipkin, an old friend from high school. But time has brought a big change. The Martin that…
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The Chosen Exile of Racial “Passing:” Allyson Hobbs at TEDxStanford TEDx Talks 2014-05-30 Allyson Hobbs, PhD 2009, speaks about the history of racial passing for TEDx Talks. Using the Emersonian idea of “coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience,” Hobbs tells the story of a cousin who passed for white,…
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Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America The Ethics@noon Series The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Stanford University 2011-02-04 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University On February 4th, 2011 Allyson Hobbs discussed the Jim Crow era as a watershed in the history of racial passing.…
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Baseball’s Secret Pioneer Slate 2014-02-04 Peter Morris, Baseball Historian Haslett, Michigan Stefan Fatsis, Sports Writer William Edward White, the first black player in major-league history, lived his life as a white man. On June 22, 1937, Joe Louis knocked out James Braddock with a right to the jaw to become the world heavyweight champion. At…
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The ‘white’ student who integrated Ole Miss Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-02-05 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of American History Stanford University (CNN) — When Harry S. Murphy arrived at the University of Mississippi in the fall of 1945, he was nervous. He landed at Ole Miss by way of the Navy’s V-12 program, a wartime…
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“I want to show that passing is a deeply individualistic practice, but it is also a fundamentally social act with enormous social consequences. I want to show what was lost by walking away from a black racial identity.” —Allyson Hobbs Nate Sloan, “Stanford historian re-examines practice of racial ‘passing’,” Stanford News, (December 18, 2013). http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/december/passing-as-white-121713.html
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Stanford historian re-examines practice of racial ‘passing’ Stanford News The Humanities at Stanford 2013-12-18 Nate Sloan, Doctoral Candidate in Musicology Stanford University In the margins of historical accounts and the dusty corners of family archives, Stanford history Professor Allyson Hobbs uncovers stories long kept hidden: those of African Americans who passed as white, from the…
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Searching for a new soul in Harlem Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2012-02-27 Annelise Heinz, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History Stanford University Allyson Hobbs on passing and racial ambiguity during the Harlem Renaissance Harlem in the 1920s is known for its creative outpouring of art, music, and literature.…