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: Latino Studies
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You may not know it — but if you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2015-10-15 Joy Diaz, Reporter Rihab Massif, originally from Lebanon, was my daughter’s preschool teacher in Austin. As a little girl, Camila, my daughter, spoke mostly in Spanish. And Massif remembers a day when…
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African American Exceptionalism and the Truth Behind the Rage over Zoe Saldaña Playing Nina Simone Upliftt: Latinos in Film, TV and Theater 2015-11-09 William Garcia In a recent article from the Huffington Post, Zoe Saldaña talks about the Nina Simone biopic that has been controversial all over the Black blogospheres. Saldaña said: “the people behind…
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Check Both! Afro-Latin@s and the Census NACLA: Reporting on the Americas Since 1967 2010 Miriam Jiménez Román Earlier in 2010 a series of public service announcements circulated on the Internet in anticipation of the U.S. Census. The three short videos, produced and disseminated by the afrolatin@ forum, a New York–based educational nonprofit, urged Latin@s to…
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Once unknown, story of WWII Latino Tuskegee Airman uncovered Fox News Latino 2015-11-20 Bryan Llenas, National Correspondent Among the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first African-American military air squadron which heroically fought in World War II, was a little known about Hispanic pilot named Esteban Hotesse. Born in Moca, Dominican Republic, but a New Yorker since…
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America Penguin Books 2012 256 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142000793 eBook ISBN: 9781101161500 Richard Rodriguez In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the…
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Postracial Mestizaje: Richard Rodriguez’s Racial Imagination in an America Where Everyone Is Beginning to Melt American Studies Volume 54, Number 1, 2015 pages 89-113 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2015.0007 Lee Bebout, Associate Professor of English Arizona State University And it seemed to me that the larger questions about America that the color raised is the fact that we…
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‘Mejorar la Raza’: An Example of Racism in Latino Culture Latino Voices Huffington Post 2015-06-15 Maria Alejandra Casale-Hardin University of California, Hastings, Law Class of 2018 Samuel Lange Zambrano portraying a 9-year-old Venezuelan boy obsessed with straightening his hair in the 2013 film Pelo Malo. ‘Mejorar la raza’ is a common phrase used in Latin…
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Racial Microaggressions Among Asian American and Latino/a Students at a Historically Black University Journal of College Student Development Volume 56, Number 7, October 2015 pages 705-722 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2015.0076 Robert T. Palmer, Associate Professor Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Howard University, Washington, D.C. Dina C. Maramba, Assistant Professor of Student Affairs Administration Binghampton University,…