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: Adrian Piper
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Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
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Performance and Identity in Adrian Piper’s Work InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies Volume 8, Number 2 (2020) DOI: 10.4000/inmedia.2754 17 pages Antonia Rigaud, Associate Professor of American Studies Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris France Lorna Simpson Head On Ice #3 2016 Ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass Unique 67 x 50 x 1 3/8…
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The uneasy existence of being black and passing for white.
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Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.
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Adrian Piper as African American Artist American Art Volume 20, Number 3 (Fall 2006) DOI: 10.1086/511097 John P. Bowles, Associate Professor of African American Art History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill African‐American artist Adrian Piper has repeatedly staged her own racial transformation in order to unsettle the racist attitudes of her artworks’ American…
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Philosophers Naomi Zack of the University of Oregon, Rebecca Tuvel of Rhodes College, and Diarmuid Costello of the University of Warwick discuss the ways in which Adrian Piper’s art interrogates racial identity, focusing on specific works as well as Piper’s own writings about race, “Passing for White, Passing for Black” and Escape to Berlin: A…
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For anyone who is doubtful of the sheer absurdity of racial categorization and the porousness of our supposed boundaries, the Piper family history can be instructive. Adrian Margaret Smith Piper was born in 1948 in Washington Heights, and raised there and on Riverside Drive. On her paternal side, she is the product of a long…
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The conceptual artist’s life and work push against the boundaries
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Enter: the conceptual artist Adrian Piper, who pretty much gave me my life.
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She’s an artist and scholar, and at “A Synthesis of Intuitions” you see thinking — about gender, racism, art — happening before your eyes.