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: Africa
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Efún: “White Love” and Modernity in Guinea Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies Volume 19, 2015 pages 33-54 DOI: 10.1353/hcs.2016.0026 Kathleen Connolly, Assistant Professor of Spanish Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon This paper analyzes the award-winning novel Efún (1955), by Liberata Masoliver. The novel, a romance-adventure set in Equatorial Guinea, stages a cosmopolitan, white identity…
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The iconic Egyptian writer speaks out about being ignored by “colonial capitalist patriarchal powers” and how today’s African women writers are leading a revolt.
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Africa Writes Returns to London London Live 2016-07-01 Reya El-Salahi, Presenter The UK’s biggest festival celebrating contemporary African literature returns to the capital today. The fifth annual Africa Writes event features award-winning authors, book launches and panel discussions at The British Library. Sheila Ruiz from the Royal African Society says the event aims to make…
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In “Unreasonable Histories,” Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book’s core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.
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Mugabe raps Chinese men over mixed race babies Bulawayo24 2016-06-11 Thobekile Zhou Chinese men who are working on various projects in Zimbabwe have come under attack for not bringing along their wives. President Robert Mugabe claimed that this could lead them to prey on local girls… …He said the Chinese men end up leaving a…
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Ghana To Ban Skin Bleaching Products in August The Root 2016-05-29 Angela Bronner Helm, Adjunct Profesor of Journalism City College of New York The government of Ghana will ban all products containing hydroquinone this summer. Colorism, that which privileges lighter skin over darker, is an issue that not only affects African Americans, but pretty much…
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This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade.
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“Marrying Out” for Love: Women’s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal African Studies Review Volume 59, Number 1, April 2016 pages 155-174 Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Lecturer in African Studies University College London This article examines the ways in which childhood and youth experiences of living in polygynous households shape the aspirations…
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Color Lines: Sex, Race, and Body Politics in Pre/Colonial Ghana Indiana University, Bloomington Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Schuessler Institute for Social Research 1022 E. 3rd Street Maple Room, IMU Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Thursday, 2016-04-28, 16:00-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University,…