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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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Circe Sturm (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 37, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2013 pages 269-272 DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2013.0006 Miguel A. Maymí Circe Sturm’s book Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century is an insightful view into the motivations of those…
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Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia University of Hawai‘i Press March 2013 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3664-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8248-3736-5 L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them…
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Black in Latin America New York University Press July 2011 270 pages 50 illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780814732984 Paperback ISBN: 9780814738184 eBook ISBN: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous…
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Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival University of Illinois Press May 2013 216 pages 6 x 9 in. 16 black & white photographs, 3 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03751-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07901-6 Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University…
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The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico University of California Press December 1980 408 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520042803 Colin M. MacLachlan, Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Jamie E. Rodríguez, Professor of History University of California, Irvine “The Forging of the Cosmic Race” challenges the widely held notion that…