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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The African American Museum chooses ‘Loving’ for its first film screening The Washington Post 2016-10-25 Helena Andrews-Dyer Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, stars of “Loving,” attend the premiere of the film on Thursday in Beverly Hills. (Chris Pizzello/Invision via Associated Press) Just one month after opening its doors, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is…
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Behind the Scenes of Loving, the Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Told Vogue 2016-10-17 (November 2016) Danzy Senna photographed by Mario Testino Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, November 2016 Meet Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, the brilliant stars of Loving, Jeff Nichols’s sweeping portrait of an interracial couple fıghting for their right to marry in…
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Cannes: Interracial Marriage Drama ‘Loving’ Throws Hat in Oscar Ring The Hollywood Reporter 2016-05-16 Gregg Kilday Director Jeff Nichols and stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga make a strong first-impression as their new film about the landmark Supreme Court case is unveiled. Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols’ new film about Richard and Mildred Loving — the…
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First Look at Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in ‘The Loving Story’ (Based on Anti-Miscegenation Case) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-11-20 Tambay A. Obenson Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving, on the set of the movie “Loving,” being shot in Richmond, Va. (Ben Rothstein/Big Beach Films…
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Movie about Va.’s now-defunct ban on interracial marriage to be shot in state The Washington Post 2014-05-14 Laura Vozzella, Richmond Bureau Reporter RICHMOND — Virginia has landed a movie project about Richard and Mildred Loving, the real-life Virginia couple arrested in 1958 for violating the state’s interracial marriage ban. The Lovings filed a lawsuit that…
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This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation.
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“I’m Black an’ I’m Proud”: Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visible Culture Issue number 13 (Spring 2009): After Post-Colonialism University of Rochester, New York Charlotte McIvor, Lecturer in Drama National University Ireland, Galway This article examines Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga‘s performance in Neil Jordan’s 2005 Breakfast…