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: Charles D. Martin
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As David Matthews demonstrates in his new memoir, “Ace of Spades,” however, passing continues. Like Angelina Dove, Matthews passed for white for the first 20 years of his life – throughout the 1970s, ’80s and into the ’90s – as a means of living more happily in an America still in thrall to the oppressive…
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The White African American Body Rutgers University Press March 2002 240 pages 30 b&w illus. Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3032-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3031-4 Charles D. Martin Explores the image of the white Negro in American popular culture from the late eighteenth century to the present. Blacks with white skin. Since colonial times, showmen have exhibited the bodies…