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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Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film The Citizen Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2012-02-04 Tyrone Beason Sometimes a journey begins with a song. In the case of Seattle documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro, it was a transporting version of the classic lullaby Summertime from the African-American opera Porgy and Bess, this one sung by the Benin-born…
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Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain University of Leicester Press Release 2007-01-24 Research reveals African origins in the UK and US New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst “indigenous” British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their…
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Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…
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The Evolution of ‘Portuguese’ Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century The Journal of African History Volume 40, Issue 2 (1999) pages 173-191 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, Portugal established a trading presence along the…
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Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese cases Oxford University The Oxford Diasporas Programme 2011-01-01 through 2015-12-31 Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Oxford Diaspora Programme Research Fellow, African Studies Centre Junior Research Fellow St Anne’s College, University of Oxford The Oxford Diasporas Programme is a five-year research programme involving various centres at the University of Oxford and…
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The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World Cambridge University Press March 2011 278 pages 8 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN:9780521192866 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut José da Silva Horta Universidade de Lisboa This book traces the history of…