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: Spike Lee
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My concern in this article is how American popular culture and mass media entertainment has become the foremost platform for racial meaning production, perpetuating false racial stereotypes, yet at the same time attempting to expose its own role as image-maker.
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English 108: Crossing Racial Boundaries in Post-Civil Rights Fiction and Film: Interracial Encounters University of California, Los Angeles Winter 2012 Caroline Streeter, Associate Professor of English This course looks at literature and film depicting interracial sexuality and mixed race identities in the post-Civil Rights era. Course materials depict individuals and communities that trouble and challenge…
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The Missing Bi-racial Child in Hollywood Canadian Review of American Studies Volume 37, Number 2 (2007) pages 239-263 E-ISSN: 1710-114X; Print ISSN: 0007-7720 Naomi Angel The growing interest in issues pertaining to “mixed-race” identities and communities, as well as a surge in films with “mixed-race” characters has prompted this examination of representations of “mixedrace” characters…