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 Guardian
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Fuelled by passion and outrage, the playwright and director is shaking up theatre with works about Windrush to an all-women-of-colour Richard II – and now she’s taking over the Bush in London
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Democrat Kamala Harris embodies the driving force behind the party’s electoral surge. She may be their best bet for 2020
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According to Alaina Roberts of the University of Pittsburgh, Native American nations “have always had this fear, and a valid fear, that when they accept black people as part of their tribe they are seen as not ‘Indian first’.” Caleb Gayle, “The black Americans suing to reclaim their Native American identity,” The Guardian, November 2,…
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Their ancestors were black slaves owned by Native Americans. Now they’re suing the Creek nation to fully restore their citizenship
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She thinks ballet’s broken – and has a plan to fix it. The star of Disney’s Nutcracker reboot talks about racism, nude shoes and growing up bendy
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A series of portraits of mixed-race people from around the world has cast new light on how we see ourselves
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The [passing] genre overlooks questions of colourism, treats racial identity as rigid and fixed, and the complexities of the mixed-race experience are ignored. And then there is the issue of optics. It is tricky for the passing character to move from page to screen. [John M.] Stahl’s selection of [Fredi] Washington for the role of…
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Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut is an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel “Passing,” a theme little seen since the likes of “Show Boat” and “Pinky”