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: Rebecca Hall
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Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
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Roxborough represents one of the few documented historical instances from Michigan of a Black person choosing to live nearly full-time as a member of white society. This phenomenon, known as racial passing, has received renewed popular attention through recent artistic works like Rebecca Hall’s film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel “Passing” and Britt Bennett’s…
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The upcoming drama, based on the 1929 novel, looks at the cultural self-alienation a black woman experiences when she attempts to gain the privileges that come with assuming a white identity.
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“It really gave me an access point into the history of my family that otherwise would have remained hidden,” the first-time director says
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‘Passing’ keeps its writing simple, asking viewers to lean in for greater understanding The Los Angeles Times 2022-01-18 Rebecca Hall Adapting Nella Larsen’s slim novella took writer-director Rebecca Hall 13 years. “Ultimately, I did my best to build my script and my film, not so much out of language as out of small moments of…
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The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil
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And the 2022 Oscar Nominees Should Be… The New York Times 2022-01-14 Illustrations by Ben Denzer If our chief critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott had their way, these are the films and the people who would be up for Academy Awards. Best Picture: Drive My Car, Passing, The Power of The Dog Best Director:…
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Rebecca Hall shares her Brief But Spectacular take on “Passing” and on her own racial identity as part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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Ewing, also the mother of actor-director Rebecca Hall, died Sunday at her home in Detroit
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps Rebecca Hall and Lee Daniels solve family mysteries through DNA detective work, illuminating both history and their own identities.