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: Erika Denise Edwards
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Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance Global Urban History 2016-12-19 Erika Edwards, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Charlotte Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina’s first president (1826-27) was nicknamed “Doctor Chocolate.” Painting by Mirta Toledo, 2013 It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I,…
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A century of European immigration brought with it a comprehensive effort to erase the country’s multiracial past. Only recently has that been reversed.
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Erika Denise Edward’s new book, is both innovative as well as firmly grounded in the rich tradition of scholarship that illuminates the manifold processes, policies, sites, and situations in which notions of whiteness were negotiated, reified, and contested across the New World.
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Details how African-descended women’s societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina
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Instead of enforcing segregation policies to sanction white superiority, Argentine authorities sought to eliminate blackness through European immigration and miscegenation. The constant arrival of European males through immigration made this goal attainable. For example, [Domingo] Sarmiento often touted mulatos as proof of progress because they “had the brute force of the African and the intellect…
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Instead of enforcing segregation policies to sanction white superiority, Argentine authorities sought to eliminate blackness through European immigration and miscegenation. The constant arrival of European males through immigration made this goal attainable.