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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“We Are Owed.” is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces.
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In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. “Finding Afro-Mexico” reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity.
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Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic: Race and Citizenship, 1780–1850 Routledge 2020-08-07 252 pages 5 b/w Illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780367494926 eBook ISBN: 9781003046813 Federica Morelli, Associate Professor of History of the Americas University of Turin, Turin, Italy This book grapples with the important contemporary question of the boundaries of citizenship and access to…
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Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
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Silvia Hector Webber played a foundational role in leading freedom seekers to safe havens by ferrying them away from US bondage to freedom destinations in Mexico.2
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Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
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This article focuses on the experiences of women of African descent who were made captives (and, in some cases, recaptives) after the 1683 buccaneer raid on Veracruz,
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Tatiana Seijas tracks chinos’ complex journey from the slave market in Manila to the streets of Mexico City, and from bondage to liberty.