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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Category: Mexico
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Passing the Line Karl Jacoby 2012-12-20 Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Who was Guillermo Eliseo? Such was the question that any number of people asked themselves during the Gilded Age as this enigmatic figure flitted in and out of an astonishing array of the era’s most noteworthy events—scandalous trials,…
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Tracking the First Americans National Geographic January 2015 Glenn Hodges, Staff Writer New finds, theories, and genetic discoveries are revolutionizing our understanding of the first Americans. The first face of the first Americans belongs to an unlucky teenage girl who fell to her death in a Yucatán cave some 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. Her…
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Naia Reborn: See the Surprising Face of a First American NBC News 2015-01-05 Alan Boyle, Digital’s Science Editor Timothy Archibald / National Geographic Researchers and artists have reconstructed the face of a teenage girl who lived 12,000 years ago in Mexico, and it’s not the kind of face a person might typically associate with Native…
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In Memoriam: María Elena Martínez-López, 47 University of Southern California News 2014-11-20 Susan Bell, Senior Writer (213) 740-7894 María Elena Martínez-López, associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife and a leading scholar of colonial Latin America has died. She was 47. Martínez-López died at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by…
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Honduran held in Mexican jail returns home BBC News 2014-11-08 A Honduran migrant who was jailed for more than five years by Mexican police is expected to arrive in his home country on Sunday. Angel Amilcar Colon Quevedo belongs to the Garifuna community, descended from African slaves and indigenous groups. He was picked up in…
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Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the contributors to “Mestizo Genomics” explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.