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: John Roland Redd
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Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
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Today, the persona he created opens up a dialogue about race, fame, and surprising flexibility of truth.
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Thanks to my parents transplanting me often from one ethnic mix to another, I’ve become something of a code-switching connoisseur.
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Lib at Large: Documentary tells odd story of Korla Pandit, ‘godfather of exotica’ Marin Independent Journal San Rafael, California 2015-10-29 Paul Liberatore Marin has been home to some fascinating characters over the decades, but probably no one has been as mysterious and exotic as Korla Pandit, an organ-playing, turban-wearing sex symbol of 1950s daytime TV.…
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And Korla Pandit had reason to never speak. Speaking might have given away his secret…
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The story of John Roland Redd a.k.a. Korla Pandit is unlike any I’ve encountered in popular culture. He presented an abstracted yet alluring version of India without even a semblance of authenticity. Korla represented the Far East as viewed through the eyes of the West. That speech comparing rubies to wisdom, for instance, comes not…
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Korla Pandit spoke not a word when he was on camera. He just wore a bejeweled turban, played the organ… and stared. That was the extent of his act. It was all he needed — the shimmery tones of his music, the vague evocation of the Far East, and that indelible Mona Lisa countenance with…
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Exotic Korla Pandit hid race under swami persona SFGate 2015-08-15 Jessica Zack Eric Christensen grew up in San Francisco in the 1950s and remembers his mother, “like a lot of women then, being transfixed by Korla Pandit on television. He wore a jeweled turban and had these mesmerizing eyes that made women feel he could…
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Musician’s life brings more than passing interest in passing San Francisco Chronicle 2015-07-28 Leah Garchik, Features Columnist As colleagues at KGO-TV, Eric Christensen and John Turner — Eric was a sports producer, John a news editor/arts producer — shared a passion for exotic cultural phenomena. Retired, they’ve combined know-how with that passion to make the…
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The most famous ‘Indian’ on 1950s American TV The Times of India 2015-10-04 Malini Nair Korla Pandit was the first African American to have a TV show to himself – by pretending to be an exotic Indian musician The story is almost unbelievable. In the US of the 1940s, a light-skinned African American youth discovers…