Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Articles
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My initial response to reading about the idea that Aveline, the protagonist of “Liberation,” would be able to adopt different personas in the game that seem tied to her mixed racial heritage was one of uncertainty.
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Drake, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto’s greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs is black. And yet Drake’s own identity – his nationality, his mixed race background that includes Jewish heritage and upbringing, the neighbourhood he once lived in, the schools he went to…
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A conversation about her debut novel, “How High the Moon” dives into issues of identity and her focus on telling little-known stories of African Americans.
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Le Musée de f.p.c. is devoted to the story of the free people of color of New Orleans, as told by their descendants.
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As we wind down the Blackest month of the year, I wanted to write something positive and inspirational about Black people in America. Instead, I’m using this penultimate Black History Month blog post to lament the continuous policing of Blackness.
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Thus, while Afro-descendants are fighting for visibility and recognition in Spanish America, they remain almost invisible in the African continent. The aim of this paper is to propose a curriculum, Afro-Hispanic Peoples and Culture, as a general studies course in African universities. Such a curriculum would create in Africa the much-needed visibility and contributions of…
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Using my own family’s history to show that mixed race children are the dross that needed to be removed from Germany, I employed memory and post-memory as my theoretical framing, coupled with authoethnography, family interviews, and narratives as my methodological tools.
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Their fathers visited the Philippines to buy sex: now a generation of children want to track them down