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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Performing Mulata-ness: The Politics of Cultural Authenticity and Sexuality among Carioca Samba Dancers Latin American Perspectives Volume 39, Number 2 (March 2012) pages 113-133 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X11430049 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada In Rio de Janeiro, mulatas—brown-skinned women of mixed racial descent who dance the samba in Carnival parades…
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Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
“Making the Chinese Mexican” is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The First American Freedom Fighter William Loren Katz 2012-02-02 William Loren Katz This February 2nd stands as the 500th anniversary of the death of Hatuey, an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. However, Hatuey deserves recognition as their earliest ideological…
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Writing Africans Out of the Racial Hierarchy: Anti-African Sentiment in Post-Revolutionary Mexico Cincinnati Romance Review Volume 30 (2011): Afro-Hispanic Subjectivities pages 172-183 Galadriel Mehera Gerardo, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Youngstown State University Over the past two decades scholars have examined Mexican racial ideology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They have…
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José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race Rutgers University Press 2011-05-07 142 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5063-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5064 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-5104-3 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Mexican educator and thinker José Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans—a…