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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Historian Allyson Hobbs on the History of Racial Passing The 7th Avenue Project: Thinking Persons’ Radio 2015-06-28 Robert Pollie, Host, Creator and Producer The recent case of Rachel Dolezal – the “black” activist outed as white – may have seemed novel, but she’s actually part of an old tradition of racial passing in this country.…
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But Ms. [Rachel A.] Dolezal’s view of herself — however confused, or incongruent with society’s — reveals an essential truth about race: It is a fiction, a social construct based in culture and not biology. It must be “made” from what people believe and do. Race is performative. It is the memories that bind us,…
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Rachel Dolezal’s Story Sparks Questions About ‘How People Experience Race’ All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-06-16 Audie Cornish, Host Khadijah White, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Rutgers University professor Khadijah White and…
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Rachel Dolezal and the ‘politics of passing’ Melissa Harris-Perry 2015-06-13 Melissa Harris-Perry talks with Allyson Hobbs, the woman who literally wrote the book about passing as another race in America, about the Rachel Dolezal story and how people have responded. Watch the interview (00:07:43) here.
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Allyson Hobbs Morris Educational Foundation Morristown, New Jersey 2015-05-04 Each issue, we are pleased to circle back with one of our Morristown High School esteemed alumni and catch up. This spring we caught up with Allyson Hobbs, MHS Class of ’93… Allyson Hobbs, MHS Class of 1993, Author & Assistant Professor at Stanford University After…
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Crossed lines The University of Chicago Magazine May-June 2015 Lydiayle Gibson Allyson Hobbs, AM’02, PhD’09. (Photography by Jennifer Pottheiser) A secret in her own family led Allyson Hobbs, AM’02, PhD’09, to uncover the hidden history of racial passing. “You know, we have that in our own family too.” That was the bombshell, the offhand remark…
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“A Chosen Exile” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs, has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians Stanford University Department of History Palo Alto, California 2015-04-20 “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians: the Frederick Jackson…
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Racial Reflections American Book Review Volume 36, Number 2, January/February 2015 page 13 DOI: 10.1353/abr.2015.0007 Ben Railton, Associate Professor of English Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, Massachusetts Hobbs, Allyson, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Even without a back-cover blurb from Isabel Wilkerson, it seems inevitable that…
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‘A Chosen Exile:’ Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO] NewsOne Now NewsOne 2015-02-27 Author Allyson Hobbs joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” Hobbs an assistant professor of American History at Stanford University told Martin that when…