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: Grace Halsell
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Many students and scholars of American literature and history have heard of, if not read, John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me (1961), the autobiographical account of a white reporter who takes medication to darken his skin and pass for black in the Jim Crow South in the late 1950s in order to investigate racial prejudice.
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22nd Annual David Noble Lecture featuring Robin D.G. Kelley Best Buy Theater Northrop Auditorium 84 Church Street, SE Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Tuesday, 2016-04-26, 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History University of California, Los Angeles The 22nd Annual David Noble Lecture…
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White people have been passing for black for centuries. A historian explains. Vox 2015-06-15 Dara Lind, Jetpack Comandante The story of Rachel Dolezal — the now-former Spokane NAACP president whose parents have claimed she’s white — has opened up an enormously complicated debate about race and identity in general, and blackness in America in particular.…
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Whites pass for black to gain empathy, experts say in wake of Dolezal case USA Today 2015-06-13 Melanie Eversley, Breaking News Reporter In history and in many black American families, there’s talk of black people passing for white, especially during the days of Jim Crow laws or slavery when it benefited them or even saved…
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The Story of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi Delta.