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: United States
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An Emerging Entry In America’s Multiracial Vocabulary: ‘Blaxican’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-08 Adrian Florido When Melissa Adams and her sister were growing up in Lynwood, near Compton, Calif., their black father and Mexican mother taught them to be proud of all aspects of their identity: They were…
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Afro-Latin America State University of New York, Albany Summer 2016 Course Info: ALCS 203 Luis Paredes Analysis of blackness in Latin America with a focus on the representations of peoples of African descent in national identities and discourses. The course examines some of the “myths of foundation” of Latin American nations (e.g. The “cosmic race”…
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Variations on racial tension The Harvard Gazette 2016-02-26 John Laidler, Harvard Correspondent For every nation, a different set of challenges, panelists say A panel discussion Wednesday highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality. Tracing evolving attitudes toward race and discrimination in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, a trio…
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“Mulatto: It’s Not a Cool Word” The Atlantic 2016-03-04 Nadine Ajaka, Associate Producer for Video Evoking the Mulatto is a multimedia project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States. It was created by the filmmaker Lindsay Catherine Harris, and features compelling…
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Why Zoe Saldana was the wrong black woman to play Nina Simone The Telegraph 2016-03-04 Emma Dabiri With her long silky hair and brown tan skin, Zoe Saldana may well be black. But is she “black enough” to play Nina Simone? Some people seem to think not. Ms Simone’s surviving family have asked Saldana, who…
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Meet Yaba Blay WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2016-03-07 Charlie Shelton, Digital News Producer Frank Stasio, Host “The State of Things” Yaba Blay is the Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science at N.C. Central University Sabriya Simon Growing up in New Orleans, Yaba Blay saw firsthand the different roles one navigates as an…