Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Left of Black

Race, Place and Community

2017-03-30

A conversation with award-winning author Emily Raboteau. A Q&A and book signing will follow.
Left of Black S3:E10 | Who is Black in Multiracial America?

2012-11-20

American racial history was long framed by the notion of the “one drop” rule, which within a political economy of race and difference, was a blatant attempt to embolden Whiteness and the privilege that derived from it. Scholar Yaba Blay offers a different view of the “one drop” rule with her multi-media project (1)ne Drop…
Left of Black S3:E9 | Racial Passing and the Rise of Multiracialism

2012-11-14

For many African Americans, the practice of ‘Passing’—where light-skinned Blacks could pass for White—remains a thing connected to a difficult racial past. In her new book, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity (Baylor University Press), Marcia Dawkins, a professor in the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California…