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: Ira Aldridge
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Othello’s Daughter The New Yorker 2013-07-29 Alex Ross, Music Critic Aldridge, circa 1865, and his daughter Luranah, a singer, in an undated image. Credit Photographs by Billy Rose Theatre Division / The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Mccormick Library of Special Collections / Northwestern University Library The rich legacy of Ira Aldridge,…
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Amanda Aldridge, Teacher and Composer: A Life in Music Journal of Singing January 2010 ISSN: 10867732 Joyce Andrews, Adjunct Instructor of Music Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin Aldridge was a remarkable person who devoted her lifetime to music, enriching the musical culture of Great Britain through her multi-talents as composer (published under the nom de plume…
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“Red Velvet” spins a fascinating true story The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2015-08-13 Jeffrey Borak, Entertainment Editor and Theater Critic LENOX — Actor Ira Aldridge isn’t in the American Theater Hall of Fame; his name is barely a whisper in the annals of American theater. That shouldn’t be, say director Daniela Varon and actor John…