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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Things to Know When Talking About Race and Genetics Psychology Today 2014-05-13 Agustín Fuentes, Professor of Anthropology University of Notre Dame On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science Writer) about his new book “A Troublesome Inheritance – A discussion on genes, race and…
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“That the Blood Stay Pure” traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.
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An Afropean Journey Africa is a Country 2014-03-21 Johny Pitts A few years ago, on a snowy January evening, a stranger mistook me for someone he had seen the previous week, aboard an evening train heading to Frankfurt. The moment lasted seconds, but our brief encounter would serve as a catalyst for what became a…
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Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History University of Oklahoma Press 2012 520 pages Illustrations: 12 B&W Illus., 8 Maps, 16 Tables 6.125 x 9.25 in Paperback ISBN: 9780806144870 Edited by: Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Carolyn Podruchny, Associate Professor of History York University, Toronto Brenda Macdougall, Associate Professor of…
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Immigrants Stir New Life Into São Paulo’s Gritty Old Center The New York Times 2014-04-14 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For obvious reasons, many Paulistanos still consider this megacity’s decrepit old center a no-go zone. Carjacking and kidnapping gangs prey on motorists at stoplights. Squatters control dozens of graffiti-splattered apartment buildings.…
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The Mestizo Concept: A Product of European Imperialism Onkwehón:we Rising: An Indigenouse Perspectic on Third Worldism & Revolution 2013-08-29 Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies University of California, Davis What is the concept of Mestizaje? What are its origins? What role does it have to play in the liberation, or rather the…
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Being “Nesian”: Pacific Islander Identity in Australia The Contemporary Pacific Volume 26, Number 1, 2014 pages 126-154 DOI: 10.1353/cp.2014.0013 Kirsten McGavin, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology University of Queensland, Australia Pacific Islanders in Australia use the terms “Islander” and “Pacific Islander” in many ways and in different circumstances to define themselves and others. Through invoking…