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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A Conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay: Saturday 30th August Africa Women’s Development Fund Plot Number 78, AWDF House Ambassadorial Enclave East Legon, Accra, Ghana 2014-08-28 You’re invited to a conversation with Dr. Yaba Blay on Saturday 30th August from 5pm-7pm at the AWDF resource centre in East Legon, Accra. Dr. Blay is a professor, producer,…
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Little White Lie [Philadelphia Premiere] Blackstar Film Festival Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-31-07 through 2014-08-03 International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Telephone: 215-387-5125 2014-08-02, 15:10 EDT (Local Time) Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer Followed by Q&A with Lacey Schwartz and Mehret Mandefro moderated by: Yaba Blay, Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University,…
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2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results Independent Publisher May 2014 Congratulations to all of this year’s medalists and sincere thanks to the 2,500+ independent authors and publishers who participated. Even if you didn’t win a medal, know that the competition was very fierce, and that everyone involved in the independent publishing movement is a winner!…
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International Blackness vs. Homegrown Negroes: Lupita, Chimamanda, Thandie and me Alternet 2014-02-23 Esther Armah “She is very white!” Revered Swedish film critic Jannike Åhlund watches a clip of actress Thandie Newton playing Olanna, one of the Nigerian twin sisters in the film adaptation of the award-winning novel Half of a Yellow Sun by Nigerian author…
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Multiple (Eye)dentity Series: (1)ne Drop Rule w/ Yaba Blay New York University Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square Sout Room 802 New York, New York 10012 Thursday, 2014-02-27, 17:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) The Multiple (Eye)dentity Series is comprised of films, performances and speakers that showcase the ways in which art and media are…
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Color Without Complex: A Conversation w/ Michaela Angela Davis & Dr. Yaba Blay New York University, Washington, D.C. Abramson Family Auditorium 1307 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Tuesday, 2014-02-18, 18:30 EST (Local Time) Michaela Angela Davis Yaba Blay, Ph.D., Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania What exactly…