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: “Dear White People”
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That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and struck me for reasons I couldn’t quite place at the time, reasons deeply rooted in my struggle to navigate my identity and subjectivity.
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The Great Character theme for the month: Rebel. Today: Sam White from “Dear White People” (2014), written and directed by Justin Simien.
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‘Dear White People’: A Mixed-Race Perspective Pacific Citizen: Then National Newspaper of the JACL Los Angeles, California 2014-11-19 Christine Munteanu, Assistant Program Director Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Last week, I watched a film called “Dear White People,” which follows the experiences of four black students at a predominately white, fictional Ivy League university. It…
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More Than “Black-ish”: Examining Representations of Biracial People For Harriet 2014-11-08 Aphrodite Kocieda Being biracial can be an uncomfortable subject to talk about, especially because it highlights a sensitive history of colorism, racism, and favoritism within the Black community. The unapologetic presence of biracial people in contemporary media culture is beginning to spark questions about…
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Am I ‘black enough’? Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-10-27 Gene Seymour Editor’s note: Gene Seymour is a film critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. (CNN) — I am…
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‘Dear White People’ or ‘Dear Bougie Black People’? The Boston Globe 2014-11-04 Farah Stockman THIS WEEKEND, I saw the new satirical film “Dear White People.” I was curious what it would tell me about how young people view race today. Each generation plays out the drama of race in the movies. Baby boomers flocked to“Guess…
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The “Dear White People” syndrome: Why movies are obsessed with light-skinned black characters Salon 2014-10-23 Morgan Jerkins This isn’t the first film to relegate dark-skinned actors to the sidelines — but it may be the most frustrating For Princeton University’s recent Black Alumni Conference, an advance screening of “Dear White People” took place at the…