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: University of Arizona Press
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Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai’i University of Arizona Press 2016-05-28 232 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-0251-6 Judy Rohrer, Director of the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR); Assistant Professor in Diversity and Community Studies University of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green, Kentucky Exploring how racialization is employed to further colonialism…
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A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands
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Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in…
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Doubters and Dreamers University of Arizona Press 2011 96 pages 5.50 in x 8.50 in Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2927-8 Janice Gould Doubters and Dreamers opens with a question from a young girl faced with the spectacle of Indian effigies lynched and burned “in jest” before UC Berkeley’s annual Big Game against Stanford: “What’s a debacle, Mom?”…
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An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico’s second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. “The Chinese in Mexico” provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era.
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One of the most remarkable results of the arrival of Europeans in the New World may often be taken for granted: the emergence of the mestizo component in Latin American societies. The racial mixing that occurred in the Hispanic New World is the subject of this important study, which draws on a wide variety of…
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Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest University of Arizona Press 2006 200 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-2504-1; Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2505-8 Thomas Macias, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Vermont How much does ethnicity matter to Mexican Americans today, when many marry outside their culture and some can’t even…
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In Mestizo Nations, Juan De Castro explores the construction of nationality in Latin American and Chicano literature and thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Focusing on the discourse of mestizaje—which proposes the creation of a homogenous culture out of American Indian, black, and Iberian elements—he examines a selection of texts that represent the entire…