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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I have nothing to prove in way of my identity, but I take seriously the guarding of the rich legacies passed down to me through the blood in my veins, the traditions I carry out, and the features of my face.
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I grew up with Chicano and Chicana culture in Los Angeles and heard it had spread to Japan. I wondered: Is this cultural appropriation?
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Jhené Aiko is a part of a small but seemingly growing cohort of multiracial and multicultural performers who are embedded in African American and Latinx communities yet subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, remind audiences through their music, performance, and public personas that they are “different” and thus unique. In the hyper-competitive music industry, being…
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Fortunately our readers keep me accountable. In my last column, for example, I used the word “Latinx” as a broader term for the Latino community, to some people’s perplexity.
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Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture Rutgers University Press 2018-10-17 296 pages 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-9788-0130-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-9788-0131-8 PDF ISBN: 978-1-9788-0134-9 EPUB ISBN: 978-1-9788-0132-5 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-1-9788-0133-2 Edited by: Domino Perez, Associate Professor of English University of Texas, Austin Rachel González-Martin, Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies University of…
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Puerto Ricans — the racially mixed descendants of Native Americans, European colonizers and African slaves — defy the binary racial categorization embedded in U.S. society. For most, defining themselves by race is a daunting task that often ends in defiantly choosing “neither,” “other” or “mixed.” Some embrace the labels Hispanic, Latinx, or “brown” as their…
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In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”—and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America’s infamously black–white racial regime.
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I rarely see Afro-Latinas on television. Online, it’s a different story.