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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Who Was the 1st Black Duke? The Root 2013-05-13 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University Porträt des Alessandro de Medici by Pontormo, 1534-1535 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Meet the scion of a legendary Italian dynasty. Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of…
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‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…
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Arthur Wharton: The first Black Footballer BBC Tyne Culture October 2003 BBC Over 100 years before Dyer, Jenas and Ameobi, the North East had the UK’s first professional black League player. Meet the legendary Arthur Wharton. Arthur Wharton was born on 28 October 1865 in Accra, formerly the Gold Coast, now capital of Ghana, West…
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Differences give mixed-heritage students a common bond The Los Angeles Times 2013-05-27 Larry Gordon Increasing numbers of college campus clubs give voice to those who don’t fit into the traditional perceptions of race. No matter what their ancestry or their skin color, many members of UCLA’s Mixed Student Union say they have repeatedly been asked…
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The Art of Conversation: Eighteenth-Century Mexican Casta Painting SHIFT: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture Issue 5, 2012 25 pages Mey-Yen Moriuchi Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Traditionally, casta paintings have been interpreted as an isolated colonial Mexican art form and examined within the social historical moment in which they emerged. Casta paintings…
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Blacks in Colonial Spanish Texas Texas State Historical Association: A Digital Gateway to Texas History 2013 Jesús F. de la Teja, Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies and Regents’ Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos From the initial encounters between the Old and New Worlds following Christopher Columbus’s voyages…
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At Peace With Many Tribes The New York Times 2013-05-19 Carol Kino HUDSON, N.Y. — One sunny afternoon early this month Jeffrey Gibson paced around his studio, trying to keep track of which of his artworks was going where. Luminous geometric abstractions, meticulously painted on deer hide, that hung in one room were about to…
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Race Is Not Biology The Atlantic 2013-05-23 Merlin Chowkwanyun Departments of History and Public Health University of Pennsylvania How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine’s Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between “Hispanic” and…
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Mixed Race Studies Mixed Race Family 2013-05-18 Elizabeth White For global people who are mixed race, belong to a mixed race family, are starting a mixed race family or who are from the global human race and are interested in learning more about the experiences of global mixed race families. Today I’m off to Leeds…