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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Exploring Whiteness in a Black-Indian Village on Mexico’s Costa Chica The Latin American Diaries Institute of Latin American Studies 2015-06-29 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton During the early colonial period, Mexico had one of the largest African slave populations in Latin America. Today, there are numerous historically black communities…
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Afro-Latin America State University of New York, Albany Summer 2016 Course Info: ALCS 203 Luis Paredes Analysis of blackness in Latin America with a focus on the representations of peoples of African descent in national identities and discourses. The course examines some of the “myths of foundation” of Latin American nations (e.g. The “cosmic race”…
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Mexico Finally Recognized Its Black Citizens, But That’s Just The Beginning The Huffington Post 2016-01-27 Krithika Varagur Associate Editor, What’s Working In Mexico, like everywhere, identity is complex. Last month, for the first time ever, the Mexican government recognized its 1.38 million citizens of African descent in a national survey. The survey served as a…
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Mexico ‘discovers’ 1.4 million black Mexicans—they just had to ask Fusion 2015-12-15 Rafa Fernandez De Castro For the first time in its history, Mexico’s census bureau has recognized the country’s black population in a national survey that found there are approximately 1.4 million citizens (1.2% of the population) who self-identify as “Afro-Mexican” or “Afro-descendant.” The…
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Mariage et métissage dans les sociétés coloniales: Amériques, Afrique et Iles de l’Océan Indien (XVIe–XXe–siècles) (Marriage and misgeneration [miscegenation?] in colonial societies: Americas, Africa and islands of the Indian ocean (XVIth–XXth centuries)) Peter Lang 2015 357 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0343-1605-7 DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0352-0295-3 Edited by: Guy Brunet, Vice President Société de Démographie Historique, Paris, France also:…
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1.38 Million Afro-Descendants Are Identified on the Mexican Census for the First Time Remezcla 2015-12-10 Yara Simón Since the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexico’s national identity has been defined by mestizaje – a term that recognizes mixed racial ancestry of the New World after colonization. But although Mexico’s African presence was considerable from the start of…
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Leaving to learn Columbia Daily Spectator 2015-12-02 Claire Liebmann Courtesy of Karl Jacoby Several years ago while browsing newspaper clippings online, Karl Jacoby, a history professor at Columbia, came across the story of William Ellis—a Texan slave who built a million dollar fortune while posing as a Mexican millionaire in New York, essentially hacking the…
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National Affairs: Who Would Be King Time 1923-10-08 Word came to the U. S. that William Henry Ellis, who preferred to style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous…
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Afro-Mexicans Are Pushing For Legal Recognition in Mexico’s National Constitution Remezcla 2015-11-09 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888, when government officials declared that high rates of racial mixing had officially absolved the nation of its racial…
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Black Mexico: The African Roots in Mexico Western Connecticut State University Student Center Theater 181 White Street Danbury, Connecticut Wednesday, 2015-10-28, 10:50 EDT (Local Time) Gloria Arjona, Lecturer in Spanish California Institute of Technology, Pasadena In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month Dr. Gloria Arjona, a lecturer at CalTech Pasadena and University of Southern California, will…