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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With my father’s death I lost the link to my Jamaican lineage, and I needed to address that. It is vital to embrace all sides of yourself
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On Being Other: Primadonna 2021 Primadonna Festival2022-02-11 Join writer and journalist Bee Rowlatt as she introduces this year’s Costa winner Monique Roffey, author of the remarkable novel The Mermaid of Black Conch, and Natalie Morris, whose debut title Mixed/Other came out in 2021. Together they explore shared themes of otherness, outsider
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The author of “Mixed/Other” on the duality of holding two truths simultaneously and the isolation of being mixed
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The trend personified by the Kardashians is driven by the aesthetics of ambiguity – and proximity to whiteness
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‘In reality, being mixed has historically been incredibly difficult and isolating, and although I don’t feel that is the case as much now, I do think society has to be careful not to reduce or fetishise us.
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The realities of being mixed-race are unique and often overlooked in mainstream narratives, but documentary maker Ryan Cooper-Brown wants to change that. His new short documentary film “Being Both” tackles issues that directly relate to the mixed-race experience, from displacement and family conflict to racism and fetishisation.
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For so many mixed-race people, where you fit in the world depends on how other people perceive you. For Siobhan, her lighter skin places her closer to whiteness, but there are complications alongside the privilege.