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: Chicago Humanities Festival
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Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival 2015-12-18 Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families, friends, and community. It was, as Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and a leap into another. Her work explores the way this racial…
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309 | Passing in White America Chicago Humanities Festival Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Film Screening Room 201 915 E 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 Sunday, 2015-10-25; 17:30-18:30 CDT (Local Time) Between the 18th and 20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as…