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: Literary/Artistic Criticism
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Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian Purdue University Press 1994-06-01 248 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 10: 1557530513; ISBN 13: 9781557530516 eBook ISBN 10: 1612490948; ISBN 13: 9781612490946 José Raimundo Maia Neto, Professor of the Philosophy Federal University of Minas Gerais Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian examines the towering figure of nineteenth century…
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Rewriting of the past and paradigm of the feminine in “The Quadroons of New Orleans” by Sidonie de La Houssaye Pennsylvania State University 2008 231 pages Publication Number: AAT 3336040 ISBN: 9780549923022 Christian Hommel Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orléans is a novel written by a Creole women of the white francophone aristocracy, and appeard as…
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Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet American Literature Volume 79, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 85-112 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-2006-072 Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a petition in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans to enslave herself…
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Miscegenation, Racialization and Gender (Mestiçagem, Racialização e Gênero) Sociologias Number 21 (Porto Alegre Jan./June 2009) pages 94-120 DOI: 10.1590/S1517-45222009000100006 ISSN 1517-4522 Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) This paper reflects on the paradox of a mestizo Brazil and the close relationship…
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Ciphering Nations: Performing Identity in Brazil and the Caribbean University of Minnesota June 2011 197 pages Naomi Pueo Wood, Assistant Professor of Spanish The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF…
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Sigmund Feist and the End of the Idea of the Jews as a Mixed Race Shpilman Institute for Photography Blog 2011-12-04 Amos Morris Reich, Senior Lecturer of Jewish History University of Haifa Sigmnud Feist (1865-1943) is mostly remembered because of the orphanage for Jewish children that he directed in Berlin, as well as for his…
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Anglo-Indian Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Western Ballroom Music in Lucknow The Drama Review Volume 48, Number 4 (Winter 2004) Pages 167-182 DOI: 10.1162/1054204042442053 Dr. Bradley Shope, Assistant Professor of Music Texas A&M Universtity, Corpus Christi From the 1920s to the 1940s, Anglo-Indians relished Western popular music. For this marginalized group, this music was a way…
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Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, “Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”” highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the “lettered city” as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites.
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The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism University of Minnesota Press 2008 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5005-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5004-0 Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture University of California, Berkeley The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican…