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: Fannie Hurst
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In 2005, the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress added the 1934 version of Imitation of Life to the National Film Registry, its roster of “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” films. Archivist Ariel Schudson’s essay marking the occasion touts the film as “a defining moment in the history of women in film…
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“The Bluest Eye” and “Imitation of Life” (1934): Variations on a Theme (Maggie Tarmey) Toni Morrison: A Teaching and Learning Resource Collection 2021-06-08 Maggie Tarmey The following essay is written by student Maggie Tarmey, with edits by Amardeep Singh. While the two appear quite different from one another, Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye and…
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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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“Passing for white never left.”
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, who belongs to the hip-hop generation of multiculturalism and diversity, is willing to risk being a throwback in his memoir/essay “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”
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The uneasy existence of being black and passing for white.
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My work offers an analysis of this punishment and (occasional) reward system through a study of the way in which acts of racial passing are used in the service of moving the white female protagonist toward either her ultimate narrative chastisement (in the novel) or her redemption (in the film), demonstrating that passing relies on…
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In this paper, I will address how this story manages to transcend a generation and how the narrative was changed to accommodate a postwar audience. I will also discuss how the movie industry affected the production and marketing of “Imitation of Life” at the cusp of the tumultuous 1960s.
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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance HarperCollins Publishers 2013-09-10 544 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9780060882389; ISBN10: 0060882387 eBook ISBN: 9780062199126; ISBN10: 0062199129 Carla Kaplan, Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts New York City in the Jazz Age was…