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: Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory
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In‐and‐out‐of‐race: The story of Noble Johnson Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1, 2005 pages 33-52 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571487 Jane Gaines, Professor of Film Studies Columbia University School of the Arts Noble Johnson’s story is a very American story, a story more typical than we have historically wanted to admit. It…
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“Makin a way Outta no way:” The dangerous business of racial masquerade in Nella Larsen’s Passing Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 15, Issue 1 (2005) pages 79-104 DOI: 10.1080/07407700508571489 Carlyle Van Thompson, Acting Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York Early in…
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Uma Mulata, Sim!: Araci Cortes, ‘the mulatta’ of the Teatro de Revista Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2006) pages 7-26 DOI: 10.1080/07407700500514996 Judith Michelle Williams, Professor of African and African-American Studies University of Kansas Araci Cortes, a mulata assumida, rose to be one of the most successful…