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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Creating the Ideal Mexican: 20th and 21st Century Racial and National Identity Discourses in Oaxaca University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2015 235 pages Savannah N. Carroll Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This investigation intends to uncover…
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In “Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico,” an ambitious rereading of colonial history, Robert C. Schwaller proposes using the Spanish term géneros de gente (types or categories of people) as part of a more nuanced perspective on what these categories of difference meant and how they evolved. His work revises our understanding of racial…
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When Black Is Brown: The African Diaspora in Mexico The Museum of African American Art Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Macy’s 3rd Floor 4005 Crenshaw Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90008 2016-06-05 through 2016-09-18 Opening Reception: 2016-06-05, 14:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) WHERE BLACK IS BROWN: The African Diaspora In Mexico opens Sunday, June 5, 2016, with a…
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Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity.
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Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics Current Anthropology Volume 55, Number 5 (October 2014) pages 497-522 DOI: 10.1086/677945 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Vivette García Deister, Associate Professor Social Studies of Science Laboratory National Autonomous University of Mexico Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology…
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Biography: ‘The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire,’ by Karl Jacoby The Dallas Morning News 2016-06-24 Karen M. Thomas, Professor of Journalism Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas From all accounts, Guillermo Enrique Eliseo commanded attention. The elegantly dressed Mexican-born Wall Street baron in Gilded Age Manhattan was known…
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Across the Border The Nation 2016-07-21 Michael A. Elliott, Professor of English Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia William Henry Ellis, (Photo courtesy of Fanny Johnson-Griffin) A new biography of William Henry Ellis reminds us how much we still don’t know about the elusive history of racial subterfuge in America. When, in 1912, James Weldon Johnson published…
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A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border The New Yorker 2016-07-20 Jonathan Blitzer The African-American businessman William Ellis, pictured here around the year 1900, frequently passed as Mexican. COURTESY FANNY JOHNSON-GRIFFIN Some people knew him as William Ellis, and others as Guillermo Eliseo. He could be Mexican, Cuban, or even Hawaiian, depending on…