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: Allyson Hobbs
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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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Deep Dive with Dorian Warren: Passing The Takeaway WNYC Studios 2021-11-04 Melissa Harris-Perry, Host and Managing Editor Dorian Warren, Co-host This month, “Passing,” a new film by writer and director Rebecca Hall premieres on Netflix. Adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 Harlem Renaissance novel of the same name, “Passing” is shot in black and white. It’s…
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The pervasive media and public interest in the Dolezal story confirms the ongoing fascination with racial passing within and beyond the United States, a popular interest that has its counterpart in the proliferation of academic studies of the subject that have been published in the past twenty years. The scholarly attention paid to racial passing…
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Passing can be a gray area that some biracial or multiracial Americans face when navigating questions of identity and social acceptance, while defining the story we tell about ourselves. “CBS Saturday Morning” co-host Michelle Miller talks with Rebecca Hall, Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, the director and stars of the new film “Passing,” and with…
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Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.
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Understanding the Legacy of Nella Larsen’s Passing The Mary Sue 2021-02-04 Princess Weekes, Assistant Editor Right now on the Sundance circuit is the Rebecca Hall-directed film Passing, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. It is an adaptation of the Harlem Renaissance classic Passing by Nella Larsen. Embedded into the text is a rich powerful narrative…
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White supremacy rears its head again in another form of passing, as men and women who have grown up as white children in white families have taken to masquerading as Black adults in order to achieve personal success as race warriors. Jessica Krug and Rachel Dolezal, two sisters-in-deceit, both manipulated their ways to success by…
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Extensive in its research, “A Chosen Exile” includes eighty-two pages of supplementary end notes and critical commentary that offer readers an in-depth perspective on the American racial landscape, the politics of passing (from a cultural and intra-personal lens), and the notion of loss so vital to a history still prevalent.
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It’s been awhile since I’ve shared the books that I read while writing “Half-Truths.” Here are two more books that have helped me understand one of my characters, Lillian Harris.
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Allyson Hobbs distinctly remembers the first time she saw Stanford University. After flying out from Chicago for a final interview in January 2008, she was chatting with a faculty member as they arrived on campus. “We were talking about Ohio State foot-ball and we turned down Palm Drive,” she recalls. “All of a sudden, my…