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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Racial identity: Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Anatole Broyard The Globe and Mail 1999-11-23 Robert Fulford For many years, Anatole Broyard of The New York Times was a dashing figure in literary New York, a critic of exceptional charm and wit. He was said to be one of those people who talk spontaneously in well-shaped…
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9 Famous Faces On The Struggles And Beauty Of Being Afro-Latino The Huffington Post 2016-02-18 Carolina Moreno, Editor Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes to identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black and Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences. The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every…
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A Brazilian Artist’s ‘Self-Portraits’ Explore The Beauty Of Interracial Identity The Huffington Post 2016-06-17 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor In honor of mestizaje, Adriana Varejão paints herself donning the markings and ornamentation of Native Americans. In 1976, a Brazilian census asked citizens of the country — for the very first time — to…
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Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil Duke University Press 1999 304 pages 11 b&w photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2260-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2292-4 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Winner, Brazil in Comparative Perspective section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Best Book…
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Café con leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela University of Texas Press 1990 184 pages 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-292-79080-3 Winthrop R. Wright, Professor Emeritus of History University of Maryland For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well…
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Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of Latin American History Universidad Nacional de Colombia This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case Tripod: New Orleans At 300 89.9 FM WWNO New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-06-16 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190) THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind…