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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Dr. Albert C. Johnston, Negro physician in Keene, N. H., whose story of passing for white was told in the movie “Lost Boundaries,” was fired from his post as radiologist at Keene’s Elliott Community Hospital.
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Three years after the release of “Lost Boundaries,” Dr. [Albert] Johnston was fired from his job as a radiologist at Keene Community Hospital. The president of the hospital board told reporters “racial prejudice was not the reason for the dismissal,” but the doctor believed otherwise. “They have been picking on me ever since my story…
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How a UNH student inspired one of America’s first “race films” and why we’re still talking about it
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A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.
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Finding oneself in ‘Surviving the White Gaze’ The Boston Globe 2021-01-28 Blaise Allysen Kearsley, Globe Correspondent Judith Rudd for The Boston Globe Surviving The White Gaze: A Memoir By Rebecca Carroll Simon & Schuster, 320 pp., $26 The core function of tween- and teen-hood is the lofty job of figuring out who we are, as…
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Albert Johnston Jr. was 16 when he found out he was black. His fair-skinned African-American parents had been “passing” as white, they told him, since moving from Chicago to rural Gorham, New Hampshire, and later to Keene.
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It’s about time America learned her name. Enslaved by George and Martha Washington, a young Ona Judge fled to Portsmouth in 1796. A skilled seamstress, Ona Judge lived the rest of her long life in the shadows — impoverished, independent and defiant.