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: Neil Genzlinger
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“Little Boxes,” a mildly comic story about a biracial family that relocates to an exceedingly white town, feels a bit out of phase, but it’s delicately observed and does a nice job of staying within itself. It avoids the big confrontation or grand statement; doing so allows it to be an effective, if somewhat uneventful,…
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A Family Rooted in Two Realms The New York Times 2014-09-23 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic In “black-ish,” Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross lead a family wrestling with racial issues. From left, Marsai Martin, Marcus Scribner, Yara Shahidi and Miles Brown as their children. ADAM TAYLOR / ABC ‘black-ish,’ a New ABC Comedy, Taps Racial…
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Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’ The New York Times 2012-07-13 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic Olga Nenya and her foster and adopted children in 2008, in front of their house in Ukraine, as seen in the documentary directed by Julia Ivanova. First Pond Entertainment “Family Portrait in Black and White,”…