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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The Pose as Interventionist Gesture: Erica Lord and Decolonizing the Proper Subject of Memory E-Misférica Decolonial Gesture, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2014 Colleen Kim Daniher School of Communication Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois This article investigates the decolonial politics of the pose in the photographic and installation work of mixed-race Native Alaskan artist Erica Lord. Refiguring…
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Musical Miscegenation? Rock Music and the History of Sex e-misférica Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) Tavia Nyong’o, Associate Professor of Performance Studies New York University Image by Bruce Yonemoto Countering facile analogies between musical hybridity and sex across the color line that characterize certain popular discourses…
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Ellen Craft’s Radical Techniques of Subversion e-misférica Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) 16 pages Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Image by Bruce Yonemoto This paper considers the antebellum performance(s) of fugitive slave Ellen Craft. Craft, an African-American female slave from…