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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Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The “What’s Underneath Project,” Talks Racism, Insecurities Madame Noire 2016-08-22 Brande Victorian, Managing Editor Michaela Angela Davis has long been everything and then some to us, and our opinion of the writer, culture critique, and activist has only skyrocketed after watching her strip down for StyleLikeU’s highly regarded “What’s…
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Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Imitation Of Life” Madame Noire 2014-07-21 Veronica Wells, Associate Editor Everybody knows Imitation of Life. It’s the movie plenty of Black families reference when they speak about the original tearjerkers. When you think about it, it’s amazing that a movie that handled subjects such as race…
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“Little White Lie”: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White Madame Noire 2014-08-04 Veronica Wells Most of us know from a very early age that we’re Black. It happens so early that many of us can’t remember a specific conversation or moment where we learned this truth. But that wasn’t the…