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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“Sons of White Fathers”: Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 65, Number 1 (June 2010) Pages 1–37 DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2010.65.1.1 Marlene L. Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California Although many literary critics have traced the genealogy of the tragic mulatto/a to…
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French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University Fall 2010 Deborah Jenson Haiti Lab: Undergraduate Opportunities The first Humanities Laboratory at Duke, one of the key goals of the Haiti Lab is to bring innovative, interdisciplinary research more fully into the undergraduate experience at Duke and, indeed, to invite undergraduates…
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Reggae superstar Bob Marley suffered due to his mixed-race background
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Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality University of Texas Press December 2010 183 pages 62 b&w illus, 14 color photos 7 x 10 in. Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-72324-5 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Photographs by George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer Foreword by…
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Race Mixture among Northeastern Brazilian Populations American Anthropologist Volume 64, Issue 4 (August 1962) pages 751–759 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1962.64.4.02a00050 P. H. Saldanha Laboratória de Genética Humana Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Northeastern Brazilian populations are extremely interesting for racial studies. These populations are derived from the intermixture of Negroes, Whites (Portuguese), and…
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Pinturas de Casta: Mexican Caste Paintings, a Foucauldian Reading New Readings School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Volume 10 (July 2009) page 1-17 Nasheli Jiménez del Val Cardiff University This article looks at the genre of casta painting developed in colonial Mexico during the eighteenth century. The genre consists of a series of paintings representing…
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Mexican Art Genre Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing
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Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” Southern Spaces An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections 2007-08-28 Ed Piacentino, Professor of English High Point University, High Point, North Carolina This essay examines Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” (1837), a short story acknowledged as the…