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: Caribbean/Latin America
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Afro-Mexican: A Short Study on Identity University of Kansas April 2009 63 pages Ariane Rose Tulloch Submitted to the graduate degree program in Anthropology and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master’s of Arts. Up until the early 19th century, blacks outnumbered white…
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Black & White: Search for roots uncovers forgotten family secret National Post Toronto, Canada 2012-02-17 Sarah Boesveld, General Assignment Writer About 20 years ago, David Dossett watched his grandfather politely shut down a woman who called to say she was a relative and that their family had come to Canada from Jamaica and that they…
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Nharas and Morenas Horras: A Luso-African Model for the Social History of the Spanish Caribbean, c. 1570-1640 Journal of Early Modern History Volume 14, Issue 1 (2010) pages 119-150 DOI: 10.1163/138537810X12632734397061 David Wheat, Assistant Professor of History Michigan State University Drawing on little-used archival materials held in Seville’s Archive of the Indies and ecclesiastical records from…
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George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in Argentina since the time of independence, making an exciting and important contribution to both Latin American and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that…
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Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 Oxford University Press May 2004 304 pages 15 illus. & 3 maps; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780195152326; ISBN10: 0195152328 Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-19-515233-3; ISBN10: 0-19-515233-6 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Winner of the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies While…
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A Mixture of Culturas: The New Mestiza CHST 404 – Chicana Feminisms (Spring 2012) 2012-04-07 Erika Meza Loyola Marymount University Mestizaje is commonly known as the mixture of the European race with the Indians living in the Americas, something that began very long ago when the Americas were first being conquered. According to anthropologists on…
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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue Palgrave Macmillan June 2006 408 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7140-1, ISBN10: 1-4039-7140-4 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10837-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10837-7 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Arlington Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize!…
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El Que No Tiene Dingo, Tiene Mandingo: The Inadequacy of the “Mestizo” as a Theoretical Construct in the Field of Latin American Studies-The Problem and Solution Journal of Black Studies Volume 27, Number 2 (November 1996) pages 278-291 Andrew Juan Rosa Temple University I am Yoruba, I am Lucumi, Mandingo, Congo, Carabli. —Nicolás Guillén The…
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The Birth of the Mestizo in New Spain The Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 19, Number 2 (May, 1939) pages 161-184 C. E. Marshall No colonizing nation of modern times has had, perhaps, a more interesting and significant history than Spain in the new world. Protestant commercial England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries built…