Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Artist Phoebe Boswell explores what ‘home’ is, migration, family and Kenya’s troubled past True Africa 2015-11-05 Phoebe Boswell is one of the most exciting young artists working today. Her moving-image installation, The Matter of Memory, was exhibited at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery in London in 2014 alongside John Akomfrah and Rashaad Newsome. She is involved…
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Mixed-race children are not ambassadors for anti-racism Parent24 (News24) South Africa 2016-01-21 Aneshree Naidoo Why it’s unfair to lay the responsibility to prove that “love conquers all” on their little shoulders. The events of the past few weeks have spurred a shift in South Africa, from tight smiles and blank faces at work and dinner…
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Too Black to be Arab, too Arab to be Black Media Diversified 2016-01-16 Leena Habiballa, Co-Editor Qahwa Project Edited by: Mend Mariwany, Middle East & North Africa Editor Within every Sudanese diasporan is an unceasing internal dialogue about where we fit in the dominant racial order. Sudan is one of the most ethnically, culturally, linguistically…
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Phoebe Boswell: The Matter of Memory Africanah.org: Arena for Contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean Art Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands 2015-02-05 Yvette Greslé, Art Historian/Writer Edited by Rob Perrée Phoebe Boswell. ‘The Matter of Memory’, 2013-14. Installation view at Carroll/Fletcher [detail]. Courtesy the artist and Carroll/Fletcher. I settle into an armchair and am surprised by…
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Mariage et métissage dans les sociétés coloniales: Amériques, Afrique et Iles de l’Océan Indien (XVIe–XXe–siècles) (Marriage and misgeneration [miscegenation?] in colonial societies: Americas, Africa and islands of the Indian ocean (XVIth–XXth centuries)) Peter Lang 2015 357 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0343-1605-7 DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0352-0295-3 Edited by: Guy Brunet, Vice President Société de Démographie Historique, Paris, France also:…
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Krotoa-Eva’s Suite: A performance by poet Toni Stuart Goldsmiths University of London New Cross London, United Kingdom Caribbean Studies Centre Top Floor, Education Building 2015-12-03, 18:30-20:30Z Join the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies and the Centre for Feminist Research for a performance by poet Toni Stuart and a ‘Stories are Medicine’ discussion circle. Toni…
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‘We have a right to determine how our histories are told’: An interview with poet Toni Stuart Goldsmiths University of London News 2015-11-25 Sarah Cox On Thursday 3 December the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies (CCDS) and Centre for Feminist Research host a spoken word performance by Toni Stuart: poet, festival organiser and educator,…
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Misty Copeland Is Helping To Bring Dance Lessons To Rwandan Kids The Huffington Post 2015-11-25 Rahel Gebreyes, Editor, HuffPost Live The dancer just returned from Kigali, Rwanda, where shared her love of dance with children in the city. Ballerina Misty Copeland has made a name for herself breaking barriers for black dancers in the United…
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Interview with Filmmaker Adu Lalouschek Rooted In Magazine 2015-10-13 Annina Chirade Adu Lalouschek is a 21-year-old filmmaker from London and recent graduate of the London College of Communication [University of the Arts]. Whilst studying Film and Television at University, Adu met fellow course mate Alex Wondergem, “I first remember meeting Alex when he was drumming…