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 number of children born out of the widespread practice of sexual intimacy forced the colonial administration and the Belgian Parliament to debate what they termed the problème des métis, “the mulatto problem.” The issue was the treatment of the mulatto offspring of these unions: whether they should endure the same status as the rest…
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Fifty years after Frantz Fanon: beyond diversity Advances in Psychiatric Treatment Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 25-31 DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.110.008847 Adedapo Sikuade Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), a West Indian of mixed race, was a French colonial psychiatrist trained in Lyon, France, who worked mainly in colonial North Africa between 1953 and 1957. He was one…
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The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia Palgrave Macmillan 2012-01-03 304 pges 13.800 x 8.250 inches, includes 10 pgs illus ISBN: 978-0-230-34018-3, ISBN10: 0-230-34018-0 Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton, Adjunct Research Fellow Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of…
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Assimilation in Eighteenth-Century Senegal John D. Hargreaves, Burnett-Fletcher Professor Emeritus of History University of Aberdeen, Scotland The Journal of African History Volume 6, Number 2 (1965) pages 177-184 Although historians are becoming more aware of the importance of communities of West Africans with experience of European education, institutions and culture, they have so far paid…
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“Miss Eurafrica”: Men, Women’s Sexuality, and Métis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945-1960 Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 20, Number 3, September 2011 pages 568-593 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of Chicago The 1960 issue of the magazine L’Eurafricain (The Eurafrican) featured a cover photo of a woman announced…
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Playing in the dark/ playing in the light: Coloured identity in the novels of Zoë Wicomb Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa Volume 20, Issue 1, 2008 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2008.9678286 J. U. Jacobs, Senior Professor of English and Fellow University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Zoë Wicomb’s three fictional works—You Can’t Get Lost…
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Commentary: Debating Coloured Identity in the Western Cape African Security Review Volume 14, Number 4 (2005) pages 118-119 Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow Security Sector Governance Programme Institute of Security Studies, (Tshwane) Pretoria The nature and form of coloured identity in the Western Cape has been vociferously debated. Coloured identity became a particular concern after…
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‘The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood’: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 37, Issue 4 (December 2011) pages 731-745 DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2011.613691 Daniel McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy…