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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Calidad, Genealogy, and Disputed Free-colored Tributary Status in New Spain The Americas Volume 73, Number 2, April 2016 pages 139-170 Norah Andrews, Assistant Professor of World History Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey In 1787, a group of Indians from the town of Almoloya, part of Apan in the Intendancy of Mexico, aired their grievances…
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Afro-Mexicans still struggle for recognition in Mexico The Seattle Globalist 2016-06-22 Mayela Sánchez, Senior Reporter, Country Coordinator Adriana Alcázar González, Reporter María Gorge, Reporter Luz María Martínez Montiel, 81, shown at home in Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos state in central Mexico, is a specialist in African languages and culture. She works to promote the…
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Martyrs of Miscegenation: Racial and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Hispanófila Volume 132 (2001) pages 25-42 Lee Joan Skinner, Associate Professor of Spanish Claremont McKenna College The two most powerful critical paradigms for dealing with the relationship between literature and national identity in nineteenth—century Latin America have been those established by Benedict Anderson and Doris Sommer. In Anderson’s…
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Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico’s Costa Chica Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online: 2015-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2015.1094873 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s…
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.
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Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire San Antonio Express-News San Antonio, Texas 2016-06-11 Joe O’Connell Former slave passes as Mexican millionaire Historian Karl Jacoby was driving near the Texas-Mexico border when he was stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol, the agency charged with keeping Mexicans out of the United States. He explained, to their dismay,…
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Sacramento’s Mexican genealogists trace their roots to Aztec empire The Sacramento Bee Sacramento, California 2016-04-10 Stephen Magagnini Highlights Mexican Americans use Catholic Church records, other documents to map family roots Some trace family history to Aztecs, colonial Mexico Interest in Mexican family histories is growing as Latinos become biggest group in California Maria Cortez dug…
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The black people ‘erased from history’ BBC News Magazine 2016-04-10 Arlene Gregorius, BBC Mexico More than a million people in Mexico are descended from African slaves and identify as “black”, “dark” or “Afro-Mexican” even if they don’t look black. But beyond the southern state of Oaxaca they are little-known and the community’s leaders are now…
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A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands