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: Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora
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Tonight: Syfy Premieres New Alien Terrorist Series, ‘Hunters’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-04-11 Tambay A. Obenson Britne Olford – HUNTERS Tonight, Syfy premieres the first season of “Hunters” it’s new fantastical procedural thriller produced by Universal Cable Productions (in association with Valhalla Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment, respectively). Britne Oldford (“American…
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Tribeca 2016 Preview: Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in ‘Little Boxes’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-03-31 Tambay A. Obenson Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in “Little Boxes“ The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in a couple of weeks, running from April 13-24 in New York City. Leading…
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First Look at Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in ‘The Loving Story’ (Based on Anti-Miscegenation Case) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-11-20 Tambay A. Obenson Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving, on the set of the movie “Loving,” being shot in Richmond, Va. (Ben Rothstein/Big Beach Films…
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Review: Nuance-Deprived “Race” Movie ‘Black or White’ is Actually About White Frustration (Opens Friday) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-01-27 Zeba Blay “Black or White” opens nationwide this Friday, January 30, via Relativity… Is it any wonder that a movie as lazily titled as “Black or White” fails to actually tackle…
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Penny Marshall Directing A Dennis Rodman Documentary + Effa Manley Project In Development Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora 2012-09-25 Courtney Singer Lately, she has been working on a documentary about the basketball player Dennis Rodman, some of which she has been shooting via Skype. That came up because a) Ms. Marshall…
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Dwayne Johnson – ‘Race Shifter’ In A Post Racial World? Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2013-03-27 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer We all know that there’s been a lot of talk about how we are all now living in a “post-racial” society. Though I think, most of us will respond to that…
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More Than A Few Words About Post-War German Cinema, Race and ‘Toxi’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora 2012-08-01 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer For anyone interested in foreign films, one of the most interesting periods of German filmmaking was the post war period between 1946 to the mid 1960’s. In effect, only…