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: Anita Hemmings
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Anita Florence Hemmings graduated from Vassar in 1897. But though she was an excellent student, she came very close to not getting her degree at all. That was because just days before graduation, Anita’s roommate uncovered her deepest secret.
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On the surface, race appears as a simple category to quantify—the color of one’s skin, the box one circles on the census, even the percentage that appears on an at-home DNA testing kit. But the reality of one’s racial identity is hardly objective.
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Zendaya has booked what Deadline calls a hot pitch package on the street right now. The film is called ‘A White Lie’ and it is a film adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel, “The Gilded Years.”
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The hot pitch package on the street is “A White Lie,” an adaptation of the Karin Tanabe novel “The Gilded Years.” The book is a psychological thriller built around the true story of Anita Hemmings, a light-skinned African-American woman.
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Anita Hemmings was Vassar College’s first African American graduate. But no one was supposed to know that she was black.
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Who is white? Who is not? How has that changed throughout U.S. history? Legally speaking, how have some people gone from white to non-white and back again?
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In the many conversations with her since her story has been made public Miss Hemming[s] has attempted no defense of her position other than to say no one asked her while she was in college if she were white or colored. She takes the ground that she was not under moral obligations to announce her…
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BEAUTIFUL ANITA HEMMING. STORY OF THE VASSAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROES. The Sacramento Daily Record-Union Friday, 1897-09-24 page 6, columns 1-4 Source: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. STORY OF THE VASAR GRADUATE BORN OF NEGROS She Kept the Secret of Her Birth for Years From Her Roommate. This is the story of…
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COLORED VASSAR GIRL. The Saint Paul Globe Sunday, 1897-09-05 page 21, column 7 People at Poughkeepsie Thought Miss Hemmings Was a Spaniard. Anita Florence Hemmings, the Boston girl who has stirred up such a sensation by daring to complete a course at exclusive Vassar when she new that there was negro blood in her veins,…