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: Yaba A. Blay
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On ‘Jackson Five Nostrils,’ Creole vs. ‘Negro’ and Beefing Over Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ ColorLines 2016-02-08 Yaba Blay, Dan Blue Endowed Chair & Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina As you know, the video for Beyoncé Knowles’ “Formation” does the most, from invoking police violence, to flashing back to Hurricane…
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Join in the #LittleWhiteLie Twitter Chat with Filmmaker @laceyschwartz & More! #LittleWhiteLie, @lwlfilm 2015-06-16, 20:00 EDT (2015-06-17, 00:00Z) An online discussion on Race, Identity and “Little White Lies” Lacey Schwartz, Filmmaker (Little White Lie) Brooklyn, New York Yaba Blay, Author and Professor (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Collier Meyerson, Race & Politics Reporter…
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The Remix: Dr. Yaba Blay on Colorism, Kendrick Lamar & Trevor Noah The Remix with Dr. James Peterson WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-04-01 James Braxton Peterson, Host and Associate professor of English Lehigh University, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Comedy Central has named South African comedian Trevor Noah to helm “The Daily Show” when John Stewart departs…
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Fifteen Projects Selected for Tribeca Film Institute All Access Grants Filmaker 2015-03-19 Scott Macaulay, Editor-in-chief Fifteen works — scripted, documentary and interactive — were selected today for the Tribeca Film Institute‘s All Access program, which offers grant monies and other non-monetary support to projects by creators from statistically underrepresented communities. The projects were chosen from…