Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Category: Caribbean/Latin America

‘Bleach bath’, clothes pins on the nose and ‘black monkey’: Study exposes racism in interracial families debunking one of Brazil’s greatest myths

2017-06-29

What happens when there is racism in the home? In what way does it manifest? How can interracial marriages generate children who are segregated in their own home environment because of their color?
Research investigates marks of racism in “interracial families”

2017-06-09

The final pillar of the debunked ‘racial democracy’? Post-doctorate research project exposes racism and racial hierarchies within interracial families
“We Are Not Used to People Thinking We Are Beautiful”

2017-06-08

One day, Baudier came upon a group of three young girls sitting in an empty inflatable pool, putting on makeup. One of them, who was twelve years old, dabbed her face with a whitening powder to create a paler effect. She didn’t like being called “Afro-Mexican,” she said.
Rachel Dolezal: ‘Negra Frustrada’ (Frustrated Black Woman)

2017-05-25

Race is a social construction. We have heard that phrase over and over again to the point that it has become a bit hackneyed.
Privileging Kinship: Family and Race in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

2017-05-12

During the long eighteenth century, elite free people of color in Jamaica petitioned the government for exemptions to some of the island’s laws against those with African ancestry. In making these appeals, they highlighted advanced social and financial positions that put them above the average Jamaican of color.
What Does Identifying as Afro-Latina Really Mean?

2017-05-05

So why are there still so many Latinos out there hesitant to call themselves Afro-Latinos? Well for starters, not everyone understands the actual definition of Afro-Latino…
Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos

2017-05-03

By juxtaposing four prominent nineteenth and twentieth-century thinkers – Frederick Douglass, Domingo F. Sarmiento, W. E. B. Du Bois, and José Vasconcelos – her book will be the first to bring African-American and Latin American political thought into conversation.
Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom: Genomics, Multiculturalism, and Race in Latin America

2017-05-03

In “Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom,” Peter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers have emphasized mixture’s democratizing potential, depicting it as a useful resource for addressing problems of racism (claiming that race mixture undoes racial difference and hierarchy), while…
Interview with Shirley Tate

2017-04-30

We discuss realising what it means to be black in the UK, dealing with insomnia, and institutional racism in the academy, with the renowned race and black identity scholar
Exploring Mexico’s African Heritage with Dr. Marco Polo Hernández

2017-04-29

“We need to look deeper into our Africanness to understand ourselves,” says Dr. Marco Polo Hernández, a professor of Spanish and Afro-Hispanic studies at North Carolina Central University, in a recent phone interview. Mexico’s African heritage is not normally discussed or highlighted in conversation, or even education.

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