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: Ruth Negga
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Rebecca Hall’s Passing Says The Most In The Silences Elle 2021-11-12 Christine Jean-Baptiste Montréal, Quebec Passing opens on a busy street in 1920s New York. A mysterious woman (Tessa Thompson) is roaming through Manhattan. In this part of town, she anxiously hides behind a wide-brimmed hat covering half her face. It’s every bit intentional. When…
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In Rebecca Hall’s film, Nella Larsen’s story comes to life in black and white.
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The Passing Trailer Highlights That Race Is A Delusion Refinery29 2021-09-24 Nylah Burton Photo: Courtesy of Netflix. “Race is a delusion,” my friend sighed. We had been discussing passing, the act of someone from one race being accepted or perceived as a member of another, usually a marginalized race to white. After numerous anecdotes about…
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Ruth Negga has given the subject of identity a lot of thought.
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Negga’s provocative and strong-willed character in Rebecca Hall’s film highlights the actress’ singular talent.
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Tessa Thompson Delves Into the Subtext of ‘Passing’: ‘None of Us Fit Too Squarely in Boxes’ Variety 2021-11-05 Angelique Jackson, Reporter Ryan Pfluger / AUGUST In “Passing,” Tessa Thompson stars as Irene Redfield, a Black woman living in Harlem amid the Renaissance, whose life with her doctor husband Brian (André Holland) and their two sons…
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Passing can be a gray area that some biracial or multiracial Americans face when navigating questions of identity and social acceptance, while defining the story we tell about ourselves. “CBS Saturday Morning” co-host Michelle Miller talks with Rebecca Hall, Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, the director and stars of the new film “Passing,” and with…
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Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel continues the author’s exploration of the suffocating strictures of the color line.
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Hall’s directing debut stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga as friends who are both ‘passing’ for what they are not in an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel
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This delicately observed portrait of racial dynamics is worth seeing in the cinema