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: Alabama Shakes
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In the middle of making her new album, Brittany Howard decided to record the air conditioner.
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First Listen: Alabama Shakes, ‘Sound & Color’ First Listen National Public Radio 2015-04-12 Ann Powers, NPR Music Critic The Alabama Shakes’ new album, Sound & Color, comes out April 21. Brantley Gutierrez/Courtesy of the artist In the six years I’ve lived in the region, I’ve developed a mantra: Southern freaks are the best freaks. For…
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Do you identify as Black, mixed — how do you see yourself? I’m both. Everything and nothing. Clay Cane, “Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes: “I Don’t Think About Color”,” Black Entertainment Television, (June 25, 2013). http://www.bet.com/news/music/2013/06/25/brittany-howard-of-the-alabama-shakes-i-don-t-think-about-color.html.
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If you haven’t heard of Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, the 24-year-old is making jaws drop in the music industry. Armed with ferocious vocals, passionate lyrics and a dynamic presence — on and off stage — Howard as the front woman of the Alabama Shakes is bringing rock and blues back from the grave…
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Alabama Shakes’s Soul-Stirring, Shape-Shifting New Sound The New York Times Magazine 2015-03-18 Joe Rhodes With its highly anticipated second album, this band of small-town misfits finally has a ticket out — not that they would ever leave. In the upstairs dressing room at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga., in January, Alabama Shakes was getting…