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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Join us in the New Year for a virtual discussion with Netflix film “Passing” screenwriter and director Rebecca Hall, alongside actresses Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.
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For years, I passed as white. Only later did I realize the advantages I was getting made me complicit in a system that oppressed others.
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Director Rebecca Hall’s recent adaptation of Nella Larsen’s exquisite second novel, Passing (1929), is visually stunning. I had the pleasure of seeing the film on the big screen, during its limited theatrical run and before its Netflix release.
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With a remarkable fusion of substance and style, Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel unfolds inner lives along with social crises.
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What To Know About the Novel Passing Before Watching the Netflix Movie TIME 2021-11-12 Cady Lang In Passing, the film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s seminal 1929 novel of the same name, two women reckon with who they are and how they identify. Although both are Black, they are light-skinned enough that they can “pass” for…
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In Rebecca Hall’s film, Nella Larsen’s story comes to life in black and white.
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Ruth Negga has given the subject of identity a lot of thought.
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Rebecca Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel continues the author’s exploration of the suffocating strictures of the color line.