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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The governor of Louisiana has pardoned Homer Plessy, a 19th century black activist whose arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.
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The BBC has released images for the upcoming adaptation of Kit de Waal’s award-winning novel, “My Name Is Leon.”
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Ruth Negga stars in “Passing,” a film which follows two black women living in 1920s New York.
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Phil Wang, the stand-up comic you may recall for his viral video spoofing a Tom Hiddleston advert, has been baring his soul, or at least some of it, in his new book “Sidesplitter.”
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Gail Lukasik’s life was turned upside down when she discovered her mother was mixed race but had ‘passed’ as white to escape racial segregation in the US.
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US Senator Kamala Harris – chosen by Joe Biden as his Democratic vice-presidential candidate – is known as a prominent black politician. But she has also embraced her Indian roots.
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BBC One will adapt Kit de Waal’s novel “My Name is Leon” (Simon & Schuster) into a film.