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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The Black Prince of Florence: A Medici Mystery University of York Room K/133, King’s Manor York, United Kingdom Tuesday, 2016-10-18, 19:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Month Lecture Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her first book, The Divorce of Henry VIII, was published in 2012 and brought to life…
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A new exhibition in London challenges the perceptions of what Irish people look like
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This Movie Was Nearly Lost. Now They’re Fighting to Save It. The New York Times 2016-09-23 John Anderson Richard Romain in the 1982 film “Cane River.” Credit IndieCollect When it debuted in 1982, “Cane River” was already a rarity: a drama by an independent black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black patrons and dealing with race…
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Reflections on Dr Martin Luther King Jr. International Slavery Museum Dr Martin Luther King Jr building, Albert Dock Liverpool, United Kingdom 2016-09-21, 13:00-16:00 BST (Local Time) Dr Mark Christian, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Black Liverpool and grassroots education in L8 There remains a burning need in…
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Black History Month – #IMIRISH Exhibition Launch London Irish Center 50-52 Camden Square London, United Kingdom, NW1 9XB 2016-10-06 through 2016-10-31, 19:00 BST (Local Time) #Iamirish a Photography Exhibition launching a series of workshops and debates linking those of mixed race heritage to their Irish family ancestry. The Exhibition will be opened by Dan Mulhall,…
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Mixed Blessings from a Cambridge Union Camden Review 2016-09-15 Angela Cobbinah Elizabeth Anionwu THE early years of one’s life normally follow a predictable path with any unexpected twists and turns suitably documented for posterity. But it was not until she was in her 60s that Elizabeth Anionwu, one of the country’s most senior nurses, was…
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The love story that shocked the world BBC News 2016-09-14 When an African prince and a white middle-class clerk from Lloyd’s underwriters got married in 1948, it provoked shock in Britain and Africa. Seretse Khama met Ruth Williams while he was a student at Oxford University. After his studies, he was supposed to go home…
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Scotland’s national poet writes for those who’ve been asked ‘where are you from?’ PBS NewsHour 2016-09-08 Jackie Kay is Scotland’s first black national poet. Adopted as a child, much of her poetry and prose speaks to her own experience of not feeling entirely welcome in her own country. “I wrote the poems that I wanted…
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What Is Monoracial Privilege? (Hint: If You Are One Race Only You’ve Got It…) Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-17 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom The definition of the word monoracial is to be ‘composed of or involving members of one race only’. Monoracial privilege therefore refers to the advantages and benefits that come with…