Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

…There is a lot to unpack and a lot of mistruths around this historical concept of mixed race. I’m 40 years of age and some young people ask me if there are any people that are older than me who are mixed race. Because in their minds people who are mixed race are usually, you know, under 40 years of age. So historically they haven’t got any context to see that people have been mixing for hundreds and hundreds of years. And that kind of scares me…

Bradley Lincoln of (mix-d:), Interview on Mixed Chicks Chat. January 27, 2010.

Essence Fest: How Prince helped Misty Copeland discover artistic freedom

Posted in Articles, Arts, Interviews, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2016-07-04 20:41Z by Steven

Essence Fest: How Prince helped Misty Copeland discover artistic freedom

The New Orleans Times-Picayune
2016-07-02

Chelsea Brasted, Lifestyle and Culture Reporter

Misty Copeland recounted her own Prince tribute Saturday (July 2) during an Essence Fest weekend full of them. But for the first African American woman to be named principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater, the music star was a friend before she’d ever even seen him in concert.

“I’d never seen him perform live,” Copeland said during an interview with Soledad O’Brien on the festival’s Empowerment Experience stage. Copeland was emotional as she continued her story, adding, “I approached this relationship as this really hilarious quiet guy that became my friend, then I stepped onstage with him for the first time and I was like, OK, I get it now. Like, wow.”…

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