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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In her seminal text Femininity, Susan Brownmiller identifies what can simply be termed the mythic proportions of the female body. Idealized, worshiped, ravaged, and reviled-the female body is forever being measured (usually against the unattainable paradigms of a male imagination) and found lacking. The myth of the female body’s inadequacy is crucial to my discussion…
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Representing gods in a mixed-race society: Images, rituals and politics in María Lionza’s cult (Venezuela) University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS) Social Anthropology Seminar Room (Room 50, St Salvator’s Building) 2010-03-17, 15:00Z to 17:00Z Roger Canals University of Barcelona Roger Canals, University of Barcelona, will…
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White Teeth: A Novel Vintage an imprint of Random House 2001-06-12 464 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70386-7 (0-375-70386-1) Zadie Smith On New Year’s morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie–working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt–is calling…