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: The New York Times
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President Obama is an extraordinary figure who has done some good things in bad times, and some great things under impossible circumstances. As the first black president he has faced enormous difficulties and has had to weather a steady downpour of bad faith from the right wing and racist resistance from bigoted quarters of the…
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Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ The New York Times 2016-06-23 A. O. Scott, Film Critic Matthew McConaughey, left, and Jacob Lofland in “Free State of Jones.” Credit Murray Close/STX Entertainment “Free State of Jones” begins on the battlefield, with a flurry of the kind of immersive combat action that…
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Michelle Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 The New York Times 2016-06-18 William Grimes Michelle Cliff sometime in the 1980s. In 1975, she met the poet Adrienne Rich, who became her partner and died in 2012. Michelle Cliff, a Jamaican-American writer whose novels, stories and nonfiction essays drew on her multicultural…
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Pat Cleveland: Early Supermodel and Author With Many Tales The New York Times 2016-06-15 Guy Trebay, Chief Menswear Critic The fashion model Pat Cleveland in her home studio in New Jersey. Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times WILLINGBORO, N.J. — The peacocks were rooting around in the bushes, strutting and pecking and ruffling…
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Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer—and not just a “Negro writer” consigned to the back of the literary bus. He followed the trail blazed by tens of thousands of light-skinned black Americans. He methodically cut ties with his family (including a mother and two sisters) and took up life as a white man with…
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Editorial Observer; Back When Skin Color Was Destiny — Unless You Passed for White The New York Times 2003-09-07 Brent Staples The New Yorker was trying not to speak ill of the dead when it described Anatole Broyard as the ”famously prickly critic for the Times, a man who demanded so much from books that…
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Racial identity: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Anatole Broyard The Globe and Mail 1999-11-23 Robert Fulford For many years, Anatole Broyard of The New York Times was a dashing figure in literary New York, a critic of exceptional charm and wit. He was said to be one of those people who talk spontaneously in well-shaped…
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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…