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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Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women The Huffington Post 2016-03-02 Zeba Blay, Voices Culture Writer It highlights women who are Afro-Brazilian and proud. For the past two years, Brazilian journalist Weudson Ribeiro has been documenting the beauty of Afro-Brazilian women by photographing spontaneous portraits of them in an ongoing project. The…
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‘Blaxicans’ photos explore Angelenos straddling two worlds Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-03-01 Emanuella Grinberg, Writer/Producer CNN Digital Blaxicans of L.A. is an Instagram account that grew into a show at Los Angeles’ Avenue 50 Studio during Black History Month. The exhibit includes portraits with captions detailing personal histories and experiences with colorism and self-identity. Ken…
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#LookingForMezclas Hugo Amsellem Cali, Colombia 2016-02-11 Exploring the challenges of mingling identities with photos & stories of cool people I meet around the streets of the cities that I visit during my year-long travel… For more information, click here.
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Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border The New Yorker 2016-02-09 Peter Hessler In the summer of 2014, Davide Monteleone, an Italian photographer who had lived in Moscow for more than a decade, began to travel to the Russian-Chinese border in search of something that felt real and reliable. “I had been covering the uprising…
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Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity The Calvert Journal 2016-02-04 Photography by Liz Johnson Artur Photograph by Liz Johnson Artur “When people ask me about my background I usually start by explaining how my mum is Russian, my dad is Ghanaian and that I was born in…
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An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror The New York Times 2016-01-06 Amanda Fortini Genevieve Gaignard, “A Golden State of Mind” installation, 2015. Credit: Eric Minh Swenson, via The Cabin LA and Diane Rosenstein LOS ANGELES — On a recent Friday afternoon, Genevieve Gaignard, a photographer, collagist and installation artist, was sitting on her…
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Documenting the UK’s Black and Mixed Race Gingers Vice 2105-08-24 Natasha Culzac Francis Johnson by Michelle Marshall How would you describe a typical redhead? Do you think of Julianne Moore: light skinned and beautiful, with rust-coloured hair and a flush of crimson through her porcelain cheeks? Or do you think of Ed Sheeran? Either way,…