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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A Confederate Dissident, in a Film With Footnotes The New York Times 2016-06-15 Jennifer Schuessler The forthcoming Matthew McConaughey drama “Free State of Jones” lays claim to being the first Hollywood film in decades to depict Reconstruction, the still controversial post-Civil War period that attempted to rebuild the South along racially egalitarian lines. But the…
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See First Photos of Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones Time 2015-04-21 Sarah Begley, Culture Reporter Matthew McConaughey stars in The Free State of Jones (Murray Close) He’s basically your Civil War boyfriend For an actor, there’s no better awards bait than an appearance-transforming role in a biographical war movie. World, meet The…
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First Look at Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones ComingSoon.net 2015-03-09 Max Evry Motion picture and television studio STX Entertainment has begun principal photography on the theatrical feature The Free State of Jones in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, it was announced by Adam Fogelson, Chairman of STX Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group. The…
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ (Exclusive)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ (Exclusive) The Wrap: Covering Hollywood 2014-01-06 Jeff Sneider, Film Reporter Scott Stuber and Jon Kilik are producing the Civil War tale for Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment Hot off a pair of acclaimed performances in “Beyond the Lights” and “Belle,” Gugu Mbatha-Raw…
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Matthew McConaughey & Gary Ross Mount Civil War Saga; Bob Simonds’ STX In Talks To Finance Deadline Hollywood 2014-11-05 Mike Fleming Jr., Film Editor Anita Busch, Film Editor EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey and writer-director Gary Ross are the catalysts for a project called Free State Of Jones, which is getting some serious attention from STX Entertainment,…
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Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout The New York Times 2009-07-29 Michael Cieply LOS ANGELES — History repeats itself. But sometimes it needs a little polishing up from Hollywood. Over the last few weeks, the writers of a pair of Civil War-era histories about the anti-Confederate inhabitants of Jones County, Miss., have been trading barbs…