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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Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897 University of California Press December 1995 365 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520203433 Robert M. Levine (1941-2003), Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies University of Miami The massacre of Canudos In 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the…
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Review: Identity in Passing: RACE-ING and E-RACE-ING in American and African American History The Journal of African American History Volume 101, No. 3, Summer 2016 pages 344-355 DOI: 10.5323/jafriamerhist.101.3.0344 Thomas J. Davis, Professor of History Arizona State University, Tempe Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity. Waco, TX: Baylor…
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“We Are Who We Say We Are” provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.
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My book seeks to explain the “comfortable racial contradiction” that surrounds Rio residents with signs of blackness and whiteness but discourages them from describing what they see in racial terms. It’s not a contradiction that is “comfortable” for all, but I argue that this contradiction is surprisingly easy to live within, even as it may…
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“Race and the Brazilian Body” weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil’s “comfortable racial contradiction,” where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country’s history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict.
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The crude expression is directed at all black women. Yet it is the black woman who has tan, gold, caramel and light-to-nearly medium colored skin, who is preferred. Marques said, “Light-colored girls are a species of sexual fantasy for many men, Brazilian and foreign. They are something like a sexual fetish.”.
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An excerpt from ‘We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America.’ By Marc Fitten
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Newly discovered works by one of the earliest Asian North American writers.