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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Zun Lee’s Polaroid Archive Preserves African-American Self-Representation Photo District News 2015-08-26 Holly Hughes Photographer Zun Lee is dedicated to countering stereotypical, often negative views of the African-American family. While he was working on Father Figure, his book about African-American fathers, he stumbled on some old Polaroids that appeared to have fallen from a family photo…
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Color film was built for white people. Here’s what it did to dark skin Vox 2015-09-18 Estelle Caswell The biased film was fixed in the 1990s, so why do so many photos still distort darker skin? For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply…
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Looking at Shirley, the Ultimate Norm: Colour Balance, Image Technologies, and Cognitive Equity Canadian Journal of Communication Volume 34, Number 1 (2009) pages 111-136 Lorna Roth, Professor of Communication Studies Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Until recently, due to a light-skin bias embedded in colour film stock emulsions and digital camera design, the rendering of…
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Photographer Explores The Beautiful Diversity Of Redheads Of Color The Huffington Post 2015-08-25 Priscilla Frank, Arts Writer Michelle Marshall Red hair is usually the result of a mutation in a gene called MC1R, also known as a melanocortin 1 receptor. Normally, when activated by a certain hormone, MC1R sparks a series of signals that leads…
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Tony Gleaton: Photographing The African Story Across The Americas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-23 Karen Grigsby Bates Photographer Tony Gleaton died last Friday after struggling with a particularly aggressive cancer for 18 months. He was working, signing prints, talking to museums (several have his work in their collections,…
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Exhibition: Zun Lee, Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Contemporary Gallery 233 4th Street, NW Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 2015-06-09 through 2015-08-29 Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12:00-18:00; Saturday, 10:00-15:00 Through intimate black-and-white frames, the viewer gains access to often-overlooked moments in the lives of African American men whom…
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What It Was Like Being Mixed-Race Photographed By National Geographic Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-07-29 Sharon H Chang Remember these pictures? They were part of National Geographic’s mixed race photo campaign “Changing Faces” published in October 2013. “We’re becoming a country,” stated the magazine, “Where…
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Q&A “Blaxicans of L.A.”: capturing two cultures in one The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-21 Ebony Bailey When race in this country is often discussed in black and white, where do those who don’t quite fit the dime fall?. Walter Thompson-Hernandez, a researcher with the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at USC, is attempting…
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Mexico’s hidden people Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-07-10 Abby Reimer, Special to CNN Photograph: Mara Sanchez Renero (CNN)—An estimated 200,000 Africans were brought to Mexico under slavery, which ended in the country in 1829. Yet Afro-Mexicans remain a marginalized and often forgotten part of Mexico’s identity. Photographer Mara Sanchez Renero first learned about Afro-Mexicans as…
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Afro-Iran | The Unknown Minority 2015-04-16 Mahdi Ehsaei, Photographer The photographic series shows a side of Iran, which is unknown by even Iranians. A trip to a place which is inhabited and dominated by the descendants of slaves and traders from Africa. The Hormozgan province in the Persian Gulf is a traditional and historical region…