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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The reawakening of Afro-Argentine culture Global Post 2009-08-30 Anil Mundra Descendants of slaves are starting to assert their identity but it’s not easy in South America’s whitest country. BUENOS AIRES — “Liberty has no color” read the signs held outside a Buenos Aires city courthouse. “Arrested for having the wrong face,” and “Suspected of an…
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Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial Focus Rutgers University News September 2012 Carrie Stetler By 2050, one in five Americans is likely to be multiracial It’s a question Joan Gan hears a lot: “What are you?” She instantly knows what it means. Her father is Chinese and her mother…
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Mixed-race teen in the middle: who will she choose? Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2012-09-23 Leonora LaPeter Anton, Times Staff Writer Her dark eyes scanned the fluorescent-lit lunchroom, locking onto her friends in the center of the chaos. Her thoughts sprayed in many directions: the upcoming eighth-grade formal, a surprisingly bad grade she recently…
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Poet to discuss biracialism during UHV/ABR Fall Reading Series University of Houston-Victoria Newswire Victoria, Texas 2012-09-20 Born to a Chinese mother and a Norwegian father, award-winning author Paisley Rekdal’s mixed heritage often influences her poetry and essay writing. She will share her insights about biracialism on Sept. 27 as the second speaker in the University…
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‘The Black Count,’ A Hero On The Field, And The Page Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2012-09-15 Scott Simon, Host Tom Reiss, Author The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss, 432 pp. Crown Publishers. Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7. Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the…
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Indian Lords, Hispanic Gentlemen: The Salazars of Colonial Tlaxcala The Americas Volume 69, Number 1, July 2012 pages 1-36 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2012.0060 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro In 1773, a Mexico City expert in gold embroidery named don José Mariano Sánchez de Salazar Zitlalpopoca petitioned for a license to…