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: Anatole Broyard
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Rite Of “Passing” CBS News 2007-10-28 Russ Mitchell For 23 years Bliss Broyard was white, living in tony Greenwich, Conn., isolated from people of color and influenced by the racial attitudes of her surroundings, reports CBS News’ Russ Mitchell. Asked if she used to tell black jokes, Broyard said: “I did, in high school and…
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A Daughter Discovers Branches of the Family Tree Pruned by Her Father The New York Times 2007-11-07 Mimi Read NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6 — In a white-box living room in an apartment on lower St. Charles Avenue here, the dining table was set for a family party: plastic bowls of chips, dip and salsa; a…
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Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard’s own parents, New Orleans Creoles, had moved to Brooklyn and began to “pass” in order to get work, he had learned to conceal his racial identity. As he grew older and entered the ranks of the New York literary elite, he maintained the façade. Now his daughter Bliss tries…
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The Passing of Anatole Broyard Chapter in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Random House 1997 256 pages ISBN: 978-0-679-77666-6 Chapter pages: 180-214 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University In 1982, an investment banker…
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Resisting the Autobiographical Imperative: Anatole Broyard, Mixed Race and Silence HISTORY & POLITICS ON WEDNESDAY Research Seminars in Modern History & Politics Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations Macquarie University Sydney, Australia Room 127, Building W6A 2011-03-23, 12:00-13:15 AEST (Local Time) Maureen Perkins, Associate Professor of History, Anthropology and Sociology Curtin University, Perth,…