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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Hollywood has long shown discomfort with interracial couples, but change is happening The Los Angeles Times 2016-11-10 Lewis Beale Katherine Houghton puts a flower in Sidney Poitier’s hair in a scene from the film “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner.” (Getty Images) In 1967, the same year the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia struck down…
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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…