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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Africa’s Latin Quarter The Walrus July 2008 (Escape: Summer 2008) Stephen Henighan Despite bleak poverty, Mozambique’s multi-ethnic literary culture thrives In downtown Maputo, the monument to the origins of apartheid is just off Karl Marx Street. Maputo, with its manageable proportions, dreamy views over Delagoa Bay, and cosmopolitan restaurant scene, is one of Africa’s most…
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From Mariage à la Mode to Weddings at Town Hall: Marriage, Colonialism, and Mixed-Race Society in Nineteenth-Century Senegal The International Journal of African Historical Studies Volume 38, Number 1 (2005) pages 27-48 Hilary Jones, Assistant Professor of African History University of Maryland The institution of marriage served as the basis for the formation of mixed-race…
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Sonic spaces: Inscribing “coloured” voices in the Karoo, South Africa University of Pennsylvania 2006 228 pages Publication Number: AAT 3246175 Marie R. Jorritsma A Dissertation in Music Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A common stereotype of those classified…
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Mixed race vote key to Cape Town in S. Africa polls The Citizen 2011-05-16 Justine Gerardy Fruit seller Amien Cox will put his hopes on a white woman in South Africa’s local polls on Wednesday, 17 years after the fall of the racist apartheid regime that denied an all-race vote. CAPE TOWN – Fruit seller…
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Are we all ‘coloured’? News 24 (South Africa) 2011-03-09 Max Du Preez We really need to find new terminology for the different population groups in South Africa, especially now that we’re moving back into a political culture of obsession with race. Problem One: if “coloured” means people of mixed blood, then the vast majority of…
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Speaking About Southern Unionists… and Mixed-Race People: A Report and an Announcement Renegade South: histories of unconventional southerners 2011-05-07 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I just returned from a wonderful visit to Leiden University in the Netherlands, where I spoke generally about Civil War Southern Unionists and specifically…
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The influence of racial admixture in Egypt Eugenics Review Volume 7, Number 3 (October 1915) pages 168-183 G. Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy University of Manchester I suppose it is inevitable in these days that one trained in biological ways of thought should approach the problems of anthropology with the idea of evolution as his…
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Creolization of the Atlantic World: The Portuguese and the Kongolese Portuguese Studies Volume 27, Number 1 (2011-03-01) pages 56-69 Francisco Bethencourt, Professor of History King’s College, London In the 1930s, Gilberto Freyre’s praise of mixed-race people in Brazil challenged the idea of white supremacy, contributing to the building of a new Brazilian identity. In the…
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Representation of Coloured Identity in Selected Visual Texts about Westbury, Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand December 2006 132 pages Phyllis D. Dannhauser A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Dramatic Art). In post-apartheid South Africa, Coloured…