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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When Anita Florence Hemmings applied to attend Vassar College in upstate New York in 1893, she did not disclose her racial identity to the school. She passed as a white student for years before eventually being outed as a black woman shortly before graduation, after her white roommate’s family hired a private detective to investigate…
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Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age Bloomsbury Publishing 2015-01-15 288 pages 25 bw illus 229 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781623564919 Edited by: Ian Gregory Strachan, Associate Professor of English College of The Bahamas Mia Mask, Associate Professor of Film Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Sidney Poitier remains one of the…