Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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-Latinas Work for Cultural Survival teleSUR 2015-03-20 Mai’a Williams Quito, Ecuador In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Afro-Latino youth in the U.S. rooting themselves, their families and their communities in their African heritages as a way to create cultures of resistance to the dominant narratives of colonization and white supremacy. These movements…
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In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore Louisiana State University Press September 2015 88 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 30 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807161548 Joshua Clegg Caffery, Visiting Professor in Folklore Indiana University, Bloomington Many recurring motifs found in south Louisiana’s culture spring from the state’s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of…
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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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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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‘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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European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe University of Minnesota Press 2011 304 pages 6 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7016-1 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7015-4 Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European…
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Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery) African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2015-11-09 Celeste Henery, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. She completed a PhD…