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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Photographer Interview: Albert Chong Dodge & Burn: diversity in photography history 2011-02-08 Qiana Mestrich, Visual Artist + Writer Dodge & Burn: Where are you from? Albert Chong: I am originally from Kingston, Jamaica by way of Brooklyn, NY, San Diego, CA and presently Boulder, CO. D&B: What kind of photography do you shoot and how…
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Self Portraits of an African-Canadian Dressed as Her White Ancestors Explores Her Mixed Heritage feature shoot 2013-07-01 Keren Moscovitch Brooklyn-based photographer Stacey Tyrell’s series Backra Bluid is a dramatic investigation of the artist’s own mixed heritage and the colonialized experiences of non-whites. As an African-Canadian, whose family most recently hails from the Caribbean, she is…
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Black Indian With a Camera: The Work of Valena Broussard Dismukes Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 40-46 Sarita Cannon University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In this paper, I examine the liberatory photography of a living African-Choctaw-French American artist, Valena Broussard Dismukes. I am especially fascinated by the…
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Between 1920 and 1949, Collins documented African American life, capturing images of graduations, communions, and recitals, and allowing her subjects to help craft their images. She supported herself and her family throughout the Great Depression and in the process created an enduring pictorial record of her particular time and place. Collins left behind a visual…
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Hybrid Identity: Family, Photography and History in Colonial Indonesia Undergraduate Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies Volume 1, Issue 1 (2012) 15 pages Sani Montclair Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of California, Berkeley As members of my family lose memories and pass away, I desire to take an even tighter grip on their…
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Afro-Mexicans and Winston-Salem Photo Gallery Winston-Salem Journal Winston-Salem, North Carolina November 2007 Ted Richardson, Photographer Irma Gonzales Alvarado prays before a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe at her Winston-Salem home. She invited several neighbors to her home on the last night of La Cuarentena, a 40-night observance of the Virgin leading up to Dec.…
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The Eurasian Face Blacksmith Books November 2010 140 pages 70+ b/w images Bilingual: English/Chinese 20.5 x 31 cm Hardcover ISBN: 978-988-99799-9-7 Kirsteen Zimmern No one represents diversity better than Eurasians—those individuals with a mix of Caucasian and Asian heritage. Once a source of shame, the Eurasian face has become the face that sells. It is…
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Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939-1964 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer, promotor of literary talent, and critic of dance, theater, and opera, had an artistic vision rooted in the centrality of the talented person. He cherished accomplishment, whether in…