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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DNA from 4,500-year-old Ethiopian reveals surprise about ancestry of Africans The Los Angeles Times 2015-10-08 Karen Kaplan, Science & Medicine Editor DNA from a man who lived in Ethiopia about 4,500 years ago is prompting scientists to rethink the history of human migration in Africa. Until now, the conventional wisdom had been that the first…
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Emmanuelle Saada. Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies The American Historical Review Volume 118, Issue 2 pages 468-470 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/118.2.468 Gary Wilder, Associate Professor of Anthropology The Graduate Center, City University of New York Emmanuelle Saada, Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago:…
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The history of interracial sex: It’s much more than just rape or romance. The Los Angeles Times 2015-09-28 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Carina Ray is associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University and the author of “Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex,…
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nterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In “Crossing the Color Line,” Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters—their social practices, interests, and anxieties—shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations across racial lines.
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Trevor Noah Brings ‘A Different Perspective’ as Daily Show Host NBC News 2015-09-23 Amber Payne, Managing Editor of @NBCBLK Trevor Noah is poised to take The Daily Show throne next week and the South African comedian says his biracial and cultural background will impact and inform his perspective as host. “It just gives me a…
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Why some Muslims don’t want Ahmed Mohamed’s blackness to be ignored The Washington Post 2015-09-17 Abby Phillip, General Assignment Reporter Ahmed Mohamed is now a 14-year-old with a national following and a long list of powerful people on his calling card. After he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school to impress his…
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“Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production” analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders.