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: jazz
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The first scholarly volume dedicated to French Creole music and its contribution to the development of jazz in New Orleans
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Chicago-based drummer and bandleader on how he’s marrying the energy of intimate club performances with 21st-century electronic thinking
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Influential bandleader from Chicago presents an evocative mix of music, spoken word and video. ‘With its historical depth and vigorous performance, the music satisfies on its own terms’ (Downbeat).
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60th GRAMMY Awards: Full Nominees List Grammys Recording Academy Santa Monica, California 2017-11-28 Find out who is nominated for the 60th GRAMMY Awards in New York on Jan. 28 The nominations for the 60th GRAMMY Awards are here! Find out who has been nominated in each of the 84 categories below (use the links to…
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This Sunday is the anniversary of the end of one of the greatest comic strips of all time. On June 25, 1944, the final installment of “Krazy Kat” was published, two months after the death of its creator, George Herriman.
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Krotoa-Eva’s Suite: A performance by poet Toni Stuart Goldsmiths University of London New Cross London, United Kingdom Caribbean Studies Centre Top Floor, Education Building 2015-12-03, 18:30-20:30Z Join the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies and the Centre for Feminist Research for a performance by poet Toni Stuart and a ‘Stories are Medicine’ discussion circle. Toni…
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Tessa Souter is known as a New York City singer-songwriter, but her biography runs much deeper. She’s taken a few detours on her way to the jazz clubs.
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Tony Williams’ “Wilderness” and Mixed-Race Identity through Jazz Soundscapes and Such: Critical Thoughts on Sonic Subjects 2015-05-27 Shawn M. Higgins University of Connecticut Tony Williams (source: Wikipedia) Why do song writers choose the song titles they do? Perhaps Herbie Hancock’s 1980 track “4 A.M.” was recorded at that exact time – or maybe finished then?…
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Jazz, Race Collide With War In 1930s Europe Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-03-26 Jacki Lyden, Host The novel Half Blood Blues explores an often overlooked slice of history: black jazz musicians in Germany on the eve of World War II. The book moves from 1992 to 1939, from Baltimore to Berlin to Paris.…
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Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany University Press of Colorado 2007 320 9 b&w photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-87081-869-1 Timothy L. Schroer, Associate Professor of History University of West Georgia Historian Timothy L. Schroer’s Recasting Race after World War II explores the renegotiation of race by Germans and African…