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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For more than two centuries, many African Americans left their families and identities behind, crossing into white society as a way of securing freedom, self-preservation and economic advancement, two university professors who have researched the phenomenon told a Monticello audience on Saturday.
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For some of us, racial identity is elastic. We can pass. For white, for black, for Middle Eastern. For Latinx. I am one of those people. I know what it is to assimilate to a group you identify with, because I did it myself, against my white mother’s wishes. She hated me calling myself black.…
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But I also have sympathy for Dolezal. I know what it’s like to turn your back on the white side of your family.
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Passing and Being Passed Over in the United States Los Angeles Review of Books 2017-12-15 Kavita Das We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America By Brando Skyhorse, Lisa Page Published 10.10.2017 Beacon Press 216 Pages IN THE YEARS preceding the 2016 presidential election, the “birther” movement that had dogged Barack Obama…
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Writers Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page have brought together some of these stories in their new essay anthology We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America. As they point out in the introduction of the book, excerpted below, there have always been many ways in which people pass, and many reasons to…
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Fifteen writers reveal their diverse experiences with passing, including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic.
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Writers explore how and why the phenomenon of “passing” both shocks and fascinates.
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Racial Passing in American Life The Hill Center Washington, D.C. 2016-05-10 Lisa Page, Director of Creative Writing at The George Washington University, and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, #Passing, moderates a discussion with Dr. Allyson Hobbs. Hobbs is an assistant professor of American history at Stanford University. She is the author of A Chosen Exile:…
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The best fiction and poetry of 2010 The Washington Post Friday, 2010-12-10 …THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, $22.95). When several family members fall off the roof of a Chicago apartment building, the sole survivor is biracial Rachel, who goes to live with her grandmother in an African American…