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: Deborah Vankin
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Genevieve Gaignard tackles race, class and identity at the California African American Museum The Los Angeles Times 2016-11-17 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Genevieve Gaignard’s identity-bending “Extra Value (After Venus)” (2016). (Genevieve Gaignard / Shulamit Nazarian) Growing up in the working-class mill town of Orange, Mass., Genevieve Gaignard wrestled with her identity. She was the fair-skinned…
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When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-23 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Ascendant ballerina Misty Copeland leads a master class during Monday’s celebration in San Pedro. (Christina House/For The Times) The crowd of about 200 huddled in the parking lot of San Pedro City Ballet,…