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: Keegan-Michael Key
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With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — With Kittens in Tow The New York Times 2016-04-20 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter There is no longer “Key & Peele,” the razor-sharp Comedy Central sketch series that ended in September. There are only Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the comic actors and writers who used…
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‘Key & Peele’ Ends While Nation Could Still Use a Laugh The New York Times 2015-08-15 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter Jordan Peele, left, and Keegan-Michael Key in a scene from the final season of “Key & Peele.” Credit Comedy Central The scene is a hauntingly familiar one: A white police officer stalks an unarmed black…
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‘Key & Peele’ to End After Its Fifth Season The New York Times 2015-07-25 Jonah Bromwich The Comedy Central show “Key & Peele,” an absurdist sketch comedy that has become known for recurring skits like one in which an “anger translator” expresses emotions on President Obama’s behalf, will end after its current season. Speaking to…
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Brother from Another Mother The New Yorker 2015-02-23 Zadie Smith Key and Peele’s chameleon comedy. The wigs on “Key and Peele” are the hardest-working hairpieces in show business. Individually made, using pots of hair clearly labelled—“Short Black/Brown, Human,” “Long Black, Human”—they are destined for the heads of a dazzling array of characters: old white sportscasters…
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For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic ‘Power’ Fresh Air National Public Radio 2013-11-20 Terry Gross, Host Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race: Perhaps…