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: Amma Asante
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Curiosity about the photograph – who the girl was and what she was doing in Germany – set the award-winning film-maker off on a path that led to Where Hands Touch, a new movie starring Amandla Stenberg and George MacKay.
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A True Story of Love, Race and Royalty Gets Crammed Into A United Kingdom LA Weekly 2017-02-06 April Wolfe, Lead Film Critic Courtesy of Fox Searchlight In director Amma Asante’s epic political romance A United Kingdom, David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star as Seretse and Ruth Khama, the interracial royal couple who stunned the world…
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Reel Representation: Amma Asante’s films adeptly portray multiracial identity The Daily Bruin Los Angeles, California 2017-02-09 Olivia Mazzucato Diversity in film and television came into the spotlight in 2016 with #OscarsSoWhite. A USC study in 2016 found only about a quarter of speaking characters belonged to non-white racial/ethnic groups. In “Reel Representation,” columnist Olivia Mazzucato…
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A United Kingdom: Love In The Time Of The British Empire Media Diversified 2016-11-28 Shane Thomas Once the year in film began with #OscarsSoWhite, was it coincidence that 2016 is closing – and 2017 beginning – with a raft of movies featuring people of colour? We have Hidden Figures, Lion, Fences, and the magnificent Moonlight to…
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Belle: A Film That Defied Expectations The Root 2014-08-24 Julie Walker The film’s star and director talked to The Root about how an inspirational character helped shaped the movie, which is now out on DVD. Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who stars in the movie Belle—now out on DVD—grew up in England watching Jane Austen films but…
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Can ‘Belle’ End Hollywood’s Obsession with the White Savior? The Daily Beast 2014-05-04 Keli Goff The black characters in films like ‘The Help’ and ’12 Years A Slave’ always seem to need a white knight. But the black protagonist in ‘Belle,’ a new film about racism and slavery in England, takes matters into her own…
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Belle: Toronto Review The Hollywood Reporter 2013-09-12 John DeFore The true story of a mixed-race child raised by British aristocrats is lightly fictionalized by Amma Asante. TORONTO — Hoping to use some Jane Austen-style courtship anxiety to lend drama to an episode in 18th-century English history that is novel enough on its own, Amma Asante’s…
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Belle [World Premiere] Toronto International Film Festival 2013 TIFF Bell Lightbox Reitman Square 350 King Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013-09-05 through 2013-09-15 Film Information: Directed by Amma Asante 2013 105 minutes Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido…