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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Debunking the ‘Half-Breed’ Label Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-07-01 Micah Armstrong Blackfoot Indian of the Siksika Nation Half-breed, mixed-blood, metis… These words are more than familiar to us who are not full-blooded American Indians. And by those who are not full-blooded, I do not speak of those who claim a “great-great-great grandmother who was…
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Afro-Latin America State University of New York, Albany Summer 2016 Course Info: ALCS 203 Luis Paredes Analysis of blackness in Latin America with a focus on the representations of peoples of African descent in national identities and discourses. The course examines some of the “myths of foundation” of Latin American nations (e.g. The “cosmic race”…
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Filmmakers Behind ‘Invisible Roots’ on Finding Afro-Mexicans Living in Southern California Remezcla 2016-02-16 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California Photo: NOTIMEX/JAVIER LIRA OTERO Almost a year before the Mexican government officially acknowledged Afro-Mexicans as a distinct racial and ethnic group, directors Tiffany Walton and Lizz Mullis first began working on their film, Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans of…
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Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border The New Yorker 2016-02-09 Peter Hessler In the summer of 2014, Davide Monteleone, an Italian photographer who had lived in Moscow for more than a decade, began to travel to the Russian-Chinese border in search of something that felt real and reliable. “I had been covering the uprising…
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A call for end of the “Globeleza Mulata”: A Manifesto Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2016-02-08 Stephanie Ribeiro and Djamila Ribeiro Originally, “A Mulata Globeleza: Um Manifesto” from Agora é que são elas (2016-01-29). The Globeleza Mulata is not a natural cultural event, but a performance that…
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Mexico Finally Recognized Its Black Citizens, But That’s Just The Beginning The Huffington Post 2016-01-27 Krithika Varagur Associate Editor, What’s Working In Mexico, like everywhere, identity is complex. Last month, for the first time ever, the Mexican government recognized its 1.38 million citizens of African descent in a national survey. The survey served as a…