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: Anthropology
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Afro-Mexicans still struggle for recognition in Mexico The Seattle Globalist 2016-06-22 Mayela Sánchez, Senior Reporter, Country Coordinator Adriana Alcázar González, Reporter María Gorge, Reporter Luz María Martínez Montiel, 81, shown at home in Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos state in central Mexico, is a specialist in African languages and culture. She works to promote the…
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What do Brazilians look like? Eye on Brazil: Observations of an Ex-Expat 2015-05-23 Sabrina Gledhill, PhD I recently came across an article that has sparked all kinds of responses online and the time has come to add one of my own. Titled Future Humans Will All Look Brazilian, Researcher Says it naturally caught my eye!…
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With “A Seminole Legend,” Betty Mae Jumper joins the ranks of Native American women who are coming forward to tell their life experiences.
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Indian allies and white antagonists: toward an alternative mestizaje on Mexico’s Costa Chica Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online: 2015-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2015.1094873 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Latin American Anthropology University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom San Nicolás Tolentino, Guerrero, Mexico, is a ‘mixed’ black-Indian agricultural community on the coastal belt of Mexico’s…
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In “Unreasonable Histories,” Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book’s core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.
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Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil Duke University Press 1999 304 pages 11 b&w photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2260-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2292-4 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Winner, Brazil in Comparative Perspective section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Best Book…
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A Creole melting pot: the politics of language, race, and identity in southwest Louisiana, 1918-45 University of Sussex September 2015 353 pages Christophe Landry Doctorate of Philosophy in History Southwest Louisiana Creoles underwent great change between World Wars I and II as they confronted American culture, people, and norms. This work examines that cultural transformation,…