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.
- Frederick Douglass, A Life in American History
- In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own
- Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
- On Turning Black
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Tag: Beyoncé Knowles
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“The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” – SNL Saturday Night Live (NBC) 2016-02-13
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On ‘Jackson Five Nostrils,’ Creole vs. ‘Negro’ and Beefing Over Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ ColorLines 2016-02-08 Yaba Blay, Dan Blue Endowed Chair & Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina As you know, the video for Beyoncé Knowles’ “Formation” does the most, from invoking police violence, to flashing back to Hurricane…
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At Last …?: Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Race & History Dædalus Winter 2011, Volume 140, Number 1 Posted Online 2011-03-09 pages 131-141 DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00065 Farah J. Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies Columbia University In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age:…