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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I am a 35-year old mixed race woman (Black Jamaican, Nigerian and White British), born and living in Leeds, Yorkshire the UK and I recently completed a counselling diploma. As part of the work I had to do to achieve my diploma I had to do a great deal of work around examining my racial…
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More Than Just Party Music: New Book ‘Remixing Reggaetón’ Mines the Complicated Racial Politics of the Genre Remezcla 2015-10-21 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California For centuries, the complexities of racism in Latin America have been overshadowed by the false perception that high rates of racial mixture have created a racially democratic Latin American society. In…
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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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She was one of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and ’40s. A screen siren with smouldering looks, exotic features and almond-shaped eyes. Merle Oberon was described as graceful and hauntingly beautiful.
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Saskatchewan artist Leah Dorion features Métis women in stunning exhibit CBC News 2015-11-08 Visual artist Leah Dorion said this painting is dedicated to Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier from Fort Providence, N.W.T. (Eric Anderson/CBC) Country Wives and Daughters of the Country: Métis Women of This Land at the Affinity Gallery Visual artist Leah Marie Dorion grew up…
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Discovering my blackness Blavity 2015-10-27 Juan Robles Brooklyn, New York “Oh, you’re Latino. I thought you were black.” For most of my life, I’ve had people pose some variant of that statement to me. In our society, the prevalent idea is that a person can either be Latino or black but not both. As a…
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What’s Really Going On at Yale Medium 2015-11-08 Aaron Z. Lewis, Senior Yale University Dean Jonathan Holloway; Photo credit: Yale Daily News By now, you’ve probably seen the video of a Yale student yelling at a professor, the Facebook post about a “white girls only” party, or the email about offensive Halloween costumes. Unfortunately, the…