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: Zélie Asava
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Mixed-Race Melodrama: Métisse Dr Zélie Asava: Rethinking Representation 2020-12-14 Zélie Asava, Academic. Speaker. Author. Métisse [Mixed-Race] (Kassovitz, France, 1993) adheres to the ethics of beur cinema by reimagining the French nuclear family as black, mixed and white through its central characters. As a pioneering work it is flawed but, by directly engaging with issues of…
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Using critical race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Zélie Asava traces the history of mixed-race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day.
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The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television by Zélie Asava (review) Black Camera Volume 7, Number 1, Fall 2015 (New Series) pages 267-270 Isabelle Le Corff Asava, Zélie, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am…
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“It is largely through the on-screen body of the mixed-race female that racial laws have been written and mixed-race issues have been explored. The mixed female figure was (unofficially) accepted as a body onto which white men could project and enact their sexual fantasies. Hence the popularity of mixed girls in chorus lines at all-white…
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Zélie Asava of Irish-Kenyan parentage with English citizenship, is a lecturer in film and media theory and national cinemas at Dundalk IT and University College Dublin. She explores mixed-raced identities and its representation in Irish, U.S. and French cinemas.
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Section of Creative Media lecturer to speak at Global Mixed Race conference in Chicago Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2014-11-10 Kathryn Moley Communications Office Dundalk Institute of Technology is incredibly proud to announce that Joint Programme Director of Video and Film in the Institute, Zélie Asava, is travelling to Chicago, to participate…
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‘Global Mixed Race’ conference welcomes scholars, filmmakers to Chicago DePaul University News Release 2014-10-29 DePaul University faculty Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas cofounded the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference and will deliver opening remarks at this year’s event. (Photo by Jamie Moncrief Rebecca King-O’Riain, senior lecturer at the National University Ireland Maynooth, will give a…
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Culture File – Race and the Irish Screen RTÉ Lyric FM 2014-05-15 Fin Keegan, Host Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland What can the Irish horror movie tell us about attitudes to race? And can a mixed race guard [police] in an Irish crime series,…