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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“As White as Most White Women”: Racial Passing in Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and the Origins of a Multivalent Term American Studies Volume 54, Number 4, 2016 pages 73-97 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut In 1731 a man named Gideon Gibson, along with several of his relatives, emigrated…
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A Blackanese Beauty Queen Contexts Volume 15, Number 1 (Winter 2016) pages 73-75 DOI: 10.1177/1536504216628844 M. Nakamura Lopez M. Nakamura Lopez is a writer living in Tokyo, Japan. She studies mixedness, migration, and transnational families. M. Nakamura Lopez on the new face of Miss Japan. Read the entire article here.
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Antiracism and the Cuban Revolution: An Interview with Devyn Spence Benson African American Intellectual History Society 2016-03-08 Reena Goldthree, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Devyn Spence Benson This month, I interviewed historian Devyn Spence Benson about her forthcoming book, Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (University of…
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Africans in India: Pictures that Speak of a Forgotten History The Wire 2016-03-20 Jahnavi Sen Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah of Bijapur and African courtiers, ca, 1640. Credit: The British Library Board. An exhibition on Africans in India, highlighting the long history of African communities in India, opens on March 21 India and Africa have a…
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Ever wondered why Montserrat have a day off for St Patrick’s Day too? TheJournal.ie Dublin, Ireland 2016-03-17 Laura McAtackney, Associate Professor in Sustainable Heritage Management (Archaeology) Arhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Krysta Ryzewski, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan This edited article, written by Laura McAtackney and Krysta Ryzewski, is part of a…
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Jackie Kay: Scotland’s poet of the people The Guardian 2016-03-20 Kevin McKenna Jackie Kay at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh last week. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA To say there was a national outpouring of joy at the appointment of Jackie Kay as Scotland’s makar last week might be overdoing it, but not by much. In…
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Book Review – Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-03-18 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World, Sharon H. Chang, Routledge, 2016, 264pp, £27.99, ISBN 978-1612058481 I was really excited to finally get my hands on a copy…