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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Victoria to fly flag in memory of executed Métis leader Louis Riel Times Colonist Victoria, British Columbia 2013-11-15 Richard Watts The infinity-embossed flag of the Métis Nation will fly at municipalities around B.C. as they proclaim Saturday as Louis Riel Day. Victoria, Langford and Sidney have agreed to the proclamation. Victoria has even agreed to…
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Mixed messages The Queen’s Journal Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada Volume 141, Issue 16, 2013-10-22 Olivia Bowden, Assistant News Editor Many mixed race people, myself included, have trouble defining our ethnic identity. As a child, I’d put on my mother’s makeup and be confused as to why her dark brown foundation didn’t blend with…
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Marginalizing Métis histories through Treaty Territory Acknowledgment Big M Musings 2013-10-03 Chris Andersen, Research and Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta In the last decade or so, it has become a fairly accepted practice in Indigenous Studies circles for scholars presenting on Indigenous issues to begin their talks with some form of acknowledgment…
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“I’ve Never Heard of the Métis People”: The Politics of Naming, Racialization, and the Disregard for Aboriginal Canadians ActiveHistory.ca 2012-10-18 Crystal Fraser University of Alberta Mike Commito McMaster University The controversial selection of a hamburger name by a Toronto restaurant had customers and critics raising their eyebrows this past August. Holy Chuck Burgers, located on…
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Don’t miss Hapa-Palooza 2013: Celebrate mixed ethnicity and third culture in Vancouver Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia 2013-09-13 Jordan Yerman Celebrate the whole you with literature, film, art, and dance. This is Hapa-Palooza. The third annual Hapa-Palooza Festival kicks off on September 18, once again bringing three days of art and culture to Vancouver. Focusing…
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One of the Family: Métis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan by Brenda Macdougall (review) Canadian Ethnic Studies Volume 44, Number 3, 2012 pages 147-148 DOI: 10.1353/ces.2013.0012 Frits Pannekoek, President and Professor of History Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Brenda Macdougall, One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan (Vancouver: University of British Columbia…
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Belle [World Premiere] Toronto International Film Festival 2013 TIFF Bell Lightbox Reitman Square 350 King Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013-09-05 through 2013-09-15 Film Information: Directed by Amma Asante 2013 105 minutes Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the title role alongside Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson and Canada’s Sarah Gadon in the true story of Dido…
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Hapa-Palooza: A Celebration of Mixed Roots, Arts and Ideas Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2013-09-18, 2013-09-19, and 2013-09-21 Hapa-Palooza: A Vancouver Celebration of Mixed-Roots Arts and Ideas is a new cultural festival that celebrates the city’s identity as a place of hybridity, synergy and acceptance. A vibrant fusion of music, dance, literary, artistic and film performances,…