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: Arna Bontemps
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Passing Fancies: Color, much more than race, dominated the fiction of the Harlem Renaissance The Wall Street Journal 2011-09-03 James Campbell Harlem Renaissance Novels, Edited by Rafia Zafar, Library of America, 1,715 pages Harlem in the autumn of 1924 offered a “foretaste of paradise,” according to the novelist Arna Bontemps. He was recalling the dawn…