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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The objective of this volume is twofold: it aims at shedding light on the way texts or films show the work of individual memory and collective recollection as they grapple with a racially divided past, struggling with its legacy or playing with its stereotypes. Our second objective has been to explore the great variety in…
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Dominican women being seen—and seeing themselves—in popular culture
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Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
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For Toomer, however, this close identification with black folk culture, and the Negro in general, was inimical to his own self-conception. He largely attempted to evade conventional modes of racial identification. As he pursued a career as a writer, the young artist began to articulate an idiosyncratic and highly individualistic notion of race wherein he…
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Adopting a hemispheric perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad by foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure.
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Racial Identity Choice and its Consequences: A Study on Elizabeth Alexander’s Race Annual International Conference on Language and Literature Medan, Indonesia 2020-11-04 through 2020-11-05 Published 2021-03-11 Pages 17-27 DOI: 10.18502/kss.v5i4.8661 Nur Saktiningrum Department of English Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia Race, as people understand it, is something that you were born with. One was…
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Based on our findings we propose replacing the assumption of continental ancestry with a population structure approach that combines microevolutionary and cultural factors with historical events in the examination of population affinity.
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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Opinion: ‘In the Heights’ is just more of the same whitewashed Hollywood The Washington Post 2021-06-21 Julissa Contreras and Dash Harris Machado Producer Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival opening-night premiere of “In the Heights” on June 9 in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Julissa Contreras is a Dominican writer, poet, actor and creator…