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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‘Key & Peele’ to End After Its Fifth Season The New York Times 2015-07-25 Jonah Bromwich The Comedy Central show “Key & Peele,” an absurdist sketch comedy that has become known for recurring skits like one in which an “anger translator” expresses emotions on President Obama’s behalf, will end after its current season. Speaking to…
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Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel The New York Times 2015-07-14 Dwight Garner Fran Ross’s first and only novel, “Oreo,” was published in 1974, four years after Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and two years before Alex Haley’s “Roots.” It wasn’t reviewed in The New York Times; it was hardly reviewed anywhere.…
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Black Dancers, White Ballets The New York Times 2015-07-15 Laurie A. Woodard New York University MISTY COPELAND’S elevation to principal dancer with American Ballet Theater is a tremendous accomplishment for her as a ballet dancer and as an African-American ballerina. Neither her talent nor her achievement should be underestimated. But even as she reaches the…
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CUNY Exhibition Documents Lives of Black Africans in Early Dominican Republic The New York Times 2015-07-13 Sandra E. Garcia Scholars at the City University of New York are using clues left in 16th-century manuscripts and Spanish records to track the lives of the earliest black Africans in the Dominican Republic. An exhibition now on view…
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Misty Copeland Is Promoted to Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theater The New York Times 2015-06-30 Michael Cooper Misty Copeland, whose openness about race in ballet helped to make her one of the most famous ballerinas in the United States, was promoted on Tuesday by American Ballet Theater, becoming the first African-American female principal dancer…
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Review: Misty Copeland Debuts as Odette/Odile in ‘Swan Lake’ The New York Times 2015-06-25 Alastair Macaulay, Dance Critic Misty Copeland and James Whiteside in “Swan Lake.” Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times When Misty Copeland made her New York debut in the double role of Odette/Odile in “Swan Lake,” the most epic role in…