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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Race-ing Performativity through Transculturation, Taste and the Mulata Body Theatre Research International Volume 27, Number 2 (2002) pages 136-152 DOI: 10.1017/S0307883302000226 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside A Cuban cocktail called mulata inspires an examination of the mulata body. Beyond an analysis of the cocktail as a commercial commodity, the mulata…
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Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as “Hindus” but also as Americans.
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The Punjabi Mexican American community, the majority of which is localized to Yuba City, California is a distinctive cultural phenomenon holding its roots in a migration pattern that occurred almost a century prior. The first meeting of these cultures occurred in the Imperial Valley in 1907, near the largest irrigation system in the Western hemisphere……
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Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film University of California, Irvine 2007 226 pages AAT 3296258 ISBN: 9780549410775 Shelleen Maisha Greene, Assistant Professor of Conceptual Studies University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee My dissertation seeks to establish a critical framework for the analysis of mixed-race subjects in Italian film. Within the Italian context, mixed-race…
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Classes You May Have Missed: On Modern Brazilian Literature Pitt Magazine January, 1995 Bobby J. Chamberlain, Associate Professor of Brazilian Culture and Literature University of Pittsburgh Brazilian culture has always been considered a fusion of three different races: the Europeans (specifically Portuguese), the Indians, and the Africans who were taken to Brazil as slaves. But…
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Africa’s Legacy in Mexico: The Photographs of Tony Gleaton Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Laband Art Gallery 2007-09-09 through 2007-11-18 Africa’s Legacy in Mexico features forty-five black and white photographs from a series of portraits of African Mexicans by Tony Gleaton. Taken in the late 1980s and early 1990s, primarily in three villages along the…
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“A gallant heart to the empire.” Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures Philological Quarterly Volume 83, Number 2, Spring, 2004 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003…
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La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos/as Clave: Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State A Project of LatCrit Inc. and Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Summer 2006 22 pages Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University She…