Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
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Category: Anthropology
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UCI professor uses linguistics, DNA to help long-isolated Colombian community descended from escaped slaves find its roots
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“Whiteness” in America is not and has never been self-evident – and that is the point of passing: of not revealing information that would reposition someone from “being white” to “not quite white” or “not white” at all.
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Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize Rutgers University Press 2018-11-01 226 pages 24 b&w images 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8135-9698-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-9699-0 EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8135-9700-3 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-0-8135-9701-0 PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-9702-7 Melissa A. Johnson, Professor of Anthropology Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their…
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Race Experts: Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind
In “Race Experts” Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in “The Races of Mankind” series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930.
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In this groundbreaking discussion, Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”—and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America’s infamously black–white racial regime.
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“The Existence of the Mixed Race Damnés” is an interdisciplinary and intersectional study of the mixed-race subject in the Americas and the rise of oppositional consciousness with a consideration of not only race, but also colonialism.