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: National Film Board of Canada
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“I’m quite interested in thinking about that notion of the hyphen. That little thing that’s in-between. Let’s say, “Chinese-Canadian,” or “Japanese-Canadian.” I like to challenge those two poles, those two hegemonous poles who want to claim a part of me. Because I feel like I’ve lived in-between and I like the in-between. It’s a place…
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Anne Marie Nakagawa’s documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized.
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Long Lance National Film Board of Canada 1986 Running Time: 00:55:00 Bernie Dichek, Director Was he a black man, a white man, or an Indian chief? This documentary looks at legendary and fascinating impostor Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant…
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Maroon – On the Trail of Creoles in North America National Film Board of Canada 2005 Running Time: 01:15:08 André Gladu, Director Colette Loumède, Producer Louisiana’s Creole culture helped shape the New World and contributed to the emergence of jazz. But what remains of this unique, mixed-race society, with roots in France, Africa, the Caribbean,…