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: Phoebe Boswell
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Phoebe Boswell was born in 1982 in Nairobi, Kenya and raised, as an expatriate, in the Middle East. Boswell, who is now based in London, studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art and 2D Animation at Central St Martins. Her dialogue with her Gikuyu-Kenyan born mother (Joyce) and British-Kenyan (Timothy) father underpins her…
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Dear Mister Shakespeare – inspired by Othello British Council 2016-10-07 Multimedia visual artist Phoebe Boswell has written an original piece, ‘Dear Mister Shakespeare’, in which she questions Shakespeare on the inherent racial tensions within his writing of Othello in the 1600s, and how these tensions continue to resonate today. The film, directed by Shola Amoo,…
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Stranger In The Village – A Visual Essay Phoebe Boswell, Visual Artist 2015-12-15 Artist’s Talk at Bla Stallet Konsthallen, Angered, Gothenburg, Sweden September 2015 The term ‘residency’ is an interesting one to me – it offers a sense of belonging, of being present, resident, which is artificial of course since you are more often than…
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Artist Turns Racist Flirtations on Tinder Into Compelling Look at Race and Sex The Root 2016-05-13 Demetria Lucas D’Oyley Phoebe Boswell Source: phoebeboswell.com She Matters: Inspired by James Baldwin’s “Stranger in a Village,” Phoebe Boswell was interested in exploring the perceptions of black women in predominantly white spaces. Over the weekend I swung by the…
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Artist Phoebe Boswell explores what ‘home’ is, migration, family and Kenya’s troubled past True Africa 2015-11-05 Phoebe Boswell is one of the most exciting young artists working today. Her moving-image installation, The Matter of Memory, was exhibited at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery in London in 2014 alongside John Akomfrah and Rashaad Newsome. She is involved…