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: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
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The Photograph That Helped Misty Copeland Realize Her Responsibility as a Black Woman in Ballet Vanity Fair 2016-10-11 Misty Copeland Ahead of her new book, the first African-American female principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre reveals the power of seeing a portrait of Raven Wilkinson, who broke color barriers in ballet more than 50…
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Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86 The New York Times 2016-01-29 Jack Anderson Yvonne Chouteau, one of the five celebrated Oklahoma ballerinas with an American Indian background, in a 1963 photo. Credit Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Yvonne Chouteau, a former principal dancer of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo who emerged as one of…