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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In this work, González dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. He claims that the national identity is primarily Mestizo (mixed race) with a significant contribution from Africa. González calls the African slaves and Mestizo peasantry the first Puerto Ricans because they were the first inhabitants…
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“No, I meant where are you really from?” on being black and German Media Diversified 2014-08-15 Ella Achola School of Oriental and African Studies, London “No, I meant where are you really from?” is a micro-aggression I am all too familiar with when my simple answer of “Berlin” is perceived as insufficient to a query…
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Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the ‘Ethnic Plastic Surgery’ Minefield New York Magazine 2014-07-27 Maureen O’Connor “You’ve got some nice Caucasian features,” Dr. Edmund Kwan says, inspecting my face at his Upper East Side plastic-surgery practice, where the waiting room includes an ottoman larger than my kitchen table. “You’re half-Asian mixed with what?” Chinese…
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Black Indians are constantly confronted with the fact that they do not fit any of society’s stereotypes for Native Americans. Those stereotypes are imposed by both whites and sadly, other Indians.
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On the Mexican Mestizo Latin American Research Review Volume 14, Number 3 (1979) pages 153-168 John K. Chance, Professor of Anthropology Arizona State Univerisity No one with even a passing acquaintance with the literature on Mexican society, not to mention the rest of Spanish America, can fail to be impressed by the frequent use of…
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An Evening with Hip Hop Scholar/Activist and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate, Rosa Clemente Yemaya Pictures California State University, Los Angeles 2014-05-08, 20:00 PDT 5151 State University Drive Annenberg Science Building 132 (Science Building Wing B, Lecture Hall) Los Angeles, California 90032 From May 8, 2014. The Pan-African Studies Department at California State University,…