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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In the 2010 census — when respondents could check more than one racial group — President Obama, the son of a black African father and a white mother, checked a single box: “Black, African-American or Negro.” Mr. Obama himself was unequivocal about it: “I self-identify as African-American — that’s how I am treated and that’s…
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Book Review of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race The Skanner Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington 2013-12-10 Kam Williams Yaba Blay and Noelle Théard (dir. of photography), (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race (Philadelphia: BLACKprint Press, 2013) Traditionally, in America, if you were just a teeny-weeny bit black, you’d always been considered black.…
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New Book on Racial Identity by Dr. Yaba Blay to be Released on Black Friday with Launch Party at the Painted Bride Drexel Now Drexel University 2013-11-04 News Media Contact: Alex McKechnie, News Officer, University Communications Phone: 215-895-2705; Mobile: 401-651-7550 On Black Friday, Nov. 29, a new book on racial identity by Drexel University’s Dr.…
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(1)ne Drop Project Live Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 Telephone: 215.925.9914 Sunday, November 10, 2013, 17:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Do you know Blackness when you see it? This provocative question informs the work of Dr. Yaba Blay, whose (1)ne Drop Project depicts the stories and images of over 60 individuals…
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Visualizing Race, Identity, and Change Proof National Geographic 2013-09-17 Michele Norris, Guest Contributor Proof is National Geographic’s new online photography experience. It was launched to engage ongoing conversations about photography, art, and journalism. In addition to featuring selections from the magazine and other publications, books, and galleries, this site will offer new avenues for our…
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Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe Duke University Press 2012 256 pages 118 photographs, 10 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5074-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5056-9 Tina M. Campt, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Africana Studies Program Barnard College In Image Matters, Tina M. Campt traces the emergence of…
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“In 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,” said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany. “It had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn’t even remember his name anymore.”
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Lola Flash: [sur]passing Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 420 Commerce Street Charlottesville, Virginia Contemporary Gallery Exhibition Dates: 2013-06-07 through 2013-08-30 For more than 20 years Lola Flash has been committed to deconstructing racism, sexism and homophobia through challenging photographic imagery. [sur]passing is a work in progress that confronts the phenomenon known as pigmentocracy. The term,…