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: Articles
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We MUST Understand: Where is the ‘One-Drop Rule’ When We Need It Most? African-American News&Issues Houston, Texas 2016-03-04 Roy Douglas Malonson, Publisher In regards to ‘race matters’ I remember a much simpler time when we knew who was Black. Now I am aware that we have always had a few of us that have ‘passed’…
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Film tells real-life story of Negroes “passing” as whites
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With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — With Kittens in Tow The New York Times 2016-04-20 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter There is no longer “Key & Peele,” the razor-sharp Comedy Central sketch series that ended in September. There are only Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the comic actors and writers who used…
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Growing up in San Antonio, [Adriana] Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself — an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family — both in her community and literature.
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Our love was colour blind… but our families weren’t The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2016-02-05 Diana Appleyard and Clare Goldwin Deeply moving, and exposing tensions that still blight Britain today, mixed-race couples from four generations tell their stories ‘MY FATHER THREW ME OUT OF THE HOUSE’: 1940s MARY AND JAKE JACOBS Mary, 81, is…
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Perception and the Mulatto Body in Inquisitorial Spain: A Neurohistory* Past and Present First published online: 2016-04-16 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtw001 Cristian Berco, Associate Professor of History Bishop’s University, Quebec On 1 July 1625, their hands issuing from Dominican cloaks as black as night, inquisitors in Madrid voted to arrest Luisa Nuñez on suspicion of practising love…
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“A Escrava Isaura,” the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimarães, was one of a number of late 19th century works of fiction in Brazil that focused on abolitionism.