Tag: Identity

Making Space to Talk About Race

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Oral history allows for multiplicity: for the varied, nuanced, and complicated stories of identity and experience to be told, instead of flattened to static racial categories.

Photos from 11th Annual Loving Day Flagship Celebration - NYC

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Photos & updates from Loving Day flagship celebration - 2014

Mixed Mondays Film Series - Toasted Marshmallows

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Part 3 of Mixed Mondays film series is the first U.S preview of Toasted Marshmallows' documentary about mixed-race women in North America

Mixed Mondays Film Series - My Beautiful Laundrette

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Part 2 of Mixed Mondays film series is Oscar-nominated My Beautiful Laundrette - about mixed, immigrant, and queer relationships in London

Mixed Mondays Film Series - Imitation of Life

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Part 1 of our summer Mixed Monday film series is a 1959 Lana Turner classic - Imitation of Life

The Chosen Exile of Racial Passing

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Historian Allyson Hobbs at TEDxStanford

Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context

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As important as Loving v. Virginia (1967) was, prohibitions on interracial marriage were in fact the last segregation laws to be invalidated. Loving reflected these broader political developments in the arena of race more than it caused them.

Race & Its Categories in Historical Perspective

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Although this historical account of the construction of the race notion in the West is widely accepted, disagreement exists about whether it describes the only instance in which a human society invented a race-like belief.