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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Ethnic, Multi-Ethnic, and Nationalist Identity in Belize: Voices of Belizean Children Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2001) Theme: International Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity Sarah Woodbury Haug This paper discusses ethnicity and nationalism in children in the rural community of Punta Gorda, Belize. Ethnicity and nationalism are important aspects of…
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Ethnicity and Ethnically “Mixed” Identity in Belize: A Study of Primary School-Age Children Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 29, Issue 1 (March 1998) pages 44–67 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.1998.29.1.44 Sarah Woodbury Haug This article focuses on the ehtnic identity of children in Belize. Belizean nationalism, as taught in the primary schools, is both pan-ethnic and multiethnic. However,…
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Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World Gender & History Volume 22, Issue 3 (November 2010) pages 585–602 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x Brooke N. Newman, John Carter Brown Library Scholar (2010-2011) University of Oxford In recent years, scholars have directed considerable attention to the influence of gender relations and sexual practices…
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Blood groups of Whites, Negroes and Mulattoes from the State of Maranhão, Brazil American Journal of Physical Anthropology Volume 6, Issue 4 (December 1948) pages 423–428 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330060412 E. M. da Silva Department of Hematology Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Within the Brazilian “melting pot” the intensity and variation of the racial mixture…
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Because the Numbers Matter: Transforming Postsecondary Education Data on Student Race and Ethnicity to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Nation Educational Policy Volume 18, Number 5 (November 2004) pages 752-783 DOI: 10.1177/0895904804269941 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Christina J. Lunceford, Professor of Education California State…
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Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present Routledge: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 2010-10-21 204 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-39808-4 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto This study considers cultural representations of “brown” people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the…
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The Influence of Bob Marley’s Absent, White Father The Dread Library Essays from the University of Vermont Class, Rhetoric of Reggae Music 2002-04-30 Scott Gurtman My fadda was a guy yunno, from England here, yunno? Him was like…like you can read it yunno, it’s one o’dem slave stories: white guy get the black woman and…
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The Japanese in multiracial Peru, 1899-1942 University of California, San Diego November 2009 335 pages Publication Number: AAT 3355652 Stephanie Carol Moore This study analyzes the integration of the Japanese into the politics of race and nation in Peru during the period from 1899 to 1942. The first generation of Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru…
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Black and white sexual pairings, therefore, became a widespread phenomenon that originated from a demographic imbalance, but expanded and developed through a cultural fetishization of women of color. The islands, built upon complex systems of violence and sexual control, promoted and legitimated interracial relationships. Caribbean visitors certainly held this impression. Pierre McCallum emphasized the importance…