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: Edna Ferber
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Black women writers have long used passing stories to crack our façades of race, class, and gender.
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In today’s post, I’d like to explore those questions. By the end of considering them, I hope we will understand northeastern N.C.’s history a little better and understand where Edna Ferber found at least some of the inspiration for her most popular and enduring literary work…
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‘Show Boat’ Steams On, Eternally American All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-05-07 Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent It’s been more than eight decades since Show Boat — the seminal masterpiece of the American musical theater — premiered on a stage in Washington, D.C. Now the sprawling classic is back, in a lush production put…
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The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary Rutgers University Press 2011-01-19 248 pages, 3 photographs Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4783-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4782-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8135-4989-7 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College During the first half of the twentieth century, American Jews demonstrated a commitment to racial justice as well as an…