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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“México’s Nobodies” examines two key figures in Mexican history that have remained anonymous despite their proliferation in the arts: the soldadera and the figure of the mulata.
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I wanted to spend time in the Corn Islandisland to see if it would feel…familiar. I was eager to discover if, after finding out I had a black parent, the Caribbean would be somewhat comfortable to me. If being around non-white Creole-speaking people would light a fire of familiarity deep within me.
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Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”
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A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott’s celebrated, inimitable, essential career
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Derek Walcott, whose intricately metaphorical poetry captured the physical beauty of the Caribbean, the harsh legacy of colonialism and the complexities of living and writing in two cultural worlds, bringing him a Nobel Prize in Literature, died early Friday morning at his home near Gros Islet in St. Lucia. He was 87.
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I trace Martin’s iconography and ritual performances across Black communities in Latin and Anglo America to reveal the historical relations of power that structure and materialize the networks harnessed by Black peoples to mobilize resources in their varied yet persistent efforts to create meaningful lives out of the fragments of the Middle Passage.
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The odds were certainly against William Henry Ellis, who was born into slavery on a Texas cotton plantation near the Mexico border. But a combination of sheer moxie, an ability to speak Spanish and an olive skin allowed Ellis to reinvent himself.