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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Director Rebecca Hall’s recent adaptation of Nella Larsen’s exquisite second novel, Passing (1929), is visually stunning. I had the pleasure of seeing the film on the big screen, during its limited theatrical run and before its Netflix release.
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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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Kinship of Clover, A Novel Red Hen Press 2017-04-04 272 pages 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 9781597093811 Ellen Meeropol He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants…
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Passing Signet Classics (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2021-07-06 (Originally published in 1929) 176 Pages 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780593437841 Ebook ISBN: 9780593439074 Nella Larsen (1891–1964) Introduction by Brit Bennett Nella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.…
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The objective of this volume is twofold: it aims at shedding light on the way texts or films show the work of individual memory and collective recollection as they grapple with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes. Our second objective has been to explore the great variety in…
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Sorrentino begins with the inherited family narratives of Vicki, a daughter of Puerto Rican transplants whose birth certificate classifies her as Black but whose story of racial passing is as complicated as any other aspect of her identity. She seems determined not to be Puerto Rican, yet she vigorously disapproves of the affectations of white…