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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These NYC kids have written the history of an overlooked Black female composer National Public Radio 2021-12-02 Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR Arts Desk Three of the student authors of Who Is Florence Price? (left to right: Sebastián Núñez, Hazel Peebles and Sophia Shao), joined by their English teacher, Shannon Potts. Courtesy of Special Music School For…
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However, there is a much lesser-known court case that dealt with interracial marriage many years before in New York City: Rhinelander v Rhinelander.
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Garifuna women in New York City working to preserve life, culture, and history across borders and generations are part of a powerful lineage of resistance to anti-Blackness.
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Black identity is usually wrapped up in not having choice. My family used their light-skinned privilege to flip that choice and turned Blackness into a celebration of pride and identity and love.
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New York City Ballet’s Rachel Hutsell Is Turning Heads in the Corps Pointe 2018-05-22 Marina Harss Rachel Hutsell Photographed for Pointe by Jayme Thornton. “I’m very cautious by nature,” Rachel Hutsell says over herbal tea at Lincoln Center between rehearsals. You wouldn’t think so from the way she moves onstage or in the studio. In…
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Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer, not a black writer. So he chose to live a lie rather than be trapped by the truth.
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Shadow Child Grand Central Publishing 2018-05-08 352 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781538711453 eBook ISBN-13: 9781538711446 Rahna Reiko Rizzuto For fans of Tayari Jones and Ruth Ozeki, from National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Rizzuto comes a haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women,…
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Nate Lewis developed a visual language in the rhythms of EKGs. Now, his intricate works on paper take the scalpel to society.
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In “A Death in Harlem,” famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance.