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: Michigan
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Roxborough represents one of the few documented historical instances from Michigan of a Black person choosing to live nearly full-time as a member of white society. This phenomenon, known as racial passing, has received renewed popular attention through recent artistic works like Rebecca Hall’s film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel “Passing” and Britt Bennett’s…
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Writer and reporter Ken Coleman tells the story of Detroiter Elsie Roxborough, who was born into a wealthy, Black family in Detroit. But when she died in 1939, her death certificate listed her as white.
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Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” liberated her family, as Hall’s grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit.
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The conceptual, language-driven short stories in “Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments” are an exploration of not just mixed-race/hapa identity in Michigan (and the American Midwest), but also of the infinite ways in which stories can be told, challenged, celebrated, and subverted.
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In 1853, Samuel Codes Watson became the first black student admitted to the University of Michigan at a time where higher education for African Americans was nearly impossible. Now, Tylonn Sawyer is bringing more awareness to Watson’s story through a work of art.
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“Black Indian,” searing and raw, is Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club” and Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” meets Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony”—only, this isn’t fiction.
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Detroit Housewife Kills White Husband Jet 1953-03-05 page 20 A 29-year-old Detroit Negro housewife stabbed her white husband to death because he nagged her about not having his dinner ready. Mrs. Dorothy Homic told police she took a paring knife from her husband, Frank, 38, and stabbed him in the chest after he threatened her.…
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Nadia Karizat: Divided into nothing The Michigan Daily 2016-05-18 Nadia Karizat There are moments in my life that have burned me silently and set me up for questioning what I am. I say “what” and not “who” because I know who I am. I am someone who believes that the best moments are spontaneous, that…