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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Gay male pornography and the re/de/construction of postcolonial queer identity in Mexico New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film ISSN: 14742756 Volume 8 Issue 2 (November 2010) Gustavo Subero, Independent Researcher Since colonial times, the figuration of the Latin(o) male homosexual has been highly exoticized and troped in western media accounts (Shohat and Stam 1994; Ramirez…
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Afro-Mexican: A Short Study on Identity University of Kansas April 2009 63 pages Ariane Rose Tulloch Submitted to the graduate degree program in Anthropology and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master’s of Arts. Up until the early 19th century, blacks outnumbered white…
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Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: the Dynamics of Race, Nation, and Identity in a Mexican Moreno Community (Guerrero) American Ethnologist Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2000 pages 898–626 DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.898 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology James Madison University In this article, I explore identity formation in Mexico from the perspective of residents of San Nicolás…
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Mexico’s black history is often ignored Los Angeles Times 2008-04-13 John L. Mitchell, Times Staff Writer In Mexico, the story of the country’s black population has been largely ignored in favor of an ideology that declares that all Mexicans are “mixed race.” But it’s the mixture of indigenous and European heritage that most Mexicans embrace;…
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Am I that Race? Punjabi Mexicans and Hybrid Subjectivity, or How To Do Theory So That It Doesn’t Do You Hastings Women’s Law Journal Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer 2010) page 311-332 Falguni A. Sheth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts I. INTRODUCTION This paper explores the conceptual and…
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Articulating Space: The Free-Colored Military Establishment in Colonial Mexico from the Conquest to Independence Callaloo Volume 27, Number 1 (Winter 2004) pages 150-171 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2004.0052 Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University Introduction: Questioning the Question of Non-White Military Service in Colonial Mexico At the close of…
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Afro-Mexican History: Trends and Directions in Scholarship History Compass Volume 3, Issue 1 (January 2005) 14 pages DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2005.00156.x Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University This article surveys the development of a relatively new and vibrant subfield in Latin American History, mapping out the major stages…
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Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance University Press of America (an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) February 2004 182 pages Size: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-2775-7 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Brown-skinned men and women move across Mexico’s national…