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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Best-selling author Lisa Alther chronicles her search for missing branches of her family tree in this dazzling, hilarious memoir.
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Puerto Rico: Afro-Caribbean and Taíno Identity Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts 2011-06-26 Ivette Romero-Cesareo, Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York Note from Steven F. Riley: [The number of 2010 census repondents from Puerto Rico identifiying as two or more races…
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Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio’s Carnaval? Samba, Mulatas and Modernity Visual Anthropology Volume 21, Issue 2 (2008) pages 95-111 DOI: 10.1080/08949460701688775 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada This article chronicles the historical normalization of carnaval parades and samba performances in Rio de Janeiro, by looking at the progressive…
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The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth American Society of Ethnohistory Conference “Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: Colorful Identities, Creative Strategies American Society of Ethnohistory conference” Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005-11-18 through 2005-11-20 2005-11-19 Carol A. Morrow, Professor of Anthropology Southeast Missouri State University Over the years, I have had a number of African-American…
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Public Ceremonies and Mulatto Identity in Viceregal Lima: A Colonial Reenactment of the Fall of Troy (1631) Colonial Latin American Review Volume 16, Issue 2 (2007) pages 179-201 DOI: 10.1080/10609160701644490 José R. Jouve-Martín, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada Colonial Spanish America was a highly ritualized society. From single events to…
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Cultural Representation in Native America AltaMira Press August 2006 192 pages Cloth 0-7591-0984-2 / 978-0-7591-0984-1 Paper 0-7591-0985-0 / 978-0-7591-0985-8 Edited by: Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape…
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A Health Survey of the Seminole Indians Yale Journal Biology and Medicine Volume 6, Number 2 (December 1933) pages 155–177 H. Hamlin Among the numerous tribes of Indians living in Oklahoma the Seminoles offer some interesting phenomena for study which may contribute information on the subject of race mixture and its relationship to environment and…