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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Patrick Wolfe: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race New Books Network 2016-11-07 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, “a structure, not an event.”…
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Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race Verso Books January 2016 306 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781781689172 Hardback ISBN: 9781781689165 Ebook ISBN: 9781781689196 Patrick Wolfe Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose…
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Blackness, Science, and Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Luso-Brazilian World and the United States The Eighteenth Century Volume 57, Number 3, Fall 2016 pages 303-324 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2016.0020 Bruno Carvalho, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Princeton University It has become increasingly common for scholars to locate the eighteenth century as a turning point in…
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The first systematic study of families in sixteenth century Peru with a transatlantic focus Traces family obligations connecting Peru and Spain through dowries, bequests, legal powers, and letters
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Whitening, Mixing, Darkening, and Developing: Everything but Indigenous Latin American Research Review Volume 51, Number 3, 2016 pages 142-160 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2016.0038 Juliana Luna Freire, Assistant Professor of Spanish/Portuguese Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts This article analyzes the image of Brazilian Indigenous minority groups as a figurehead in media discourse, which is based on racializing logics…
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The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola Rutgers University Press November 2016 200 pages 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 maps, 8 tables 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-8448-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-8447-8 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-8450-8 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-8449-2 Milagros Ricourt, Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies…
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Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race Oxford University Press 2016-10-31 376 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780190625696 Edited by: H. Samy Alim, Professor of Education; Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics (by courtesy) Stanford University John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities Stanford University Arnetha F. Ball,…
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The Life and Times of Pío Pico, Last Governor of Mexican California Lost LA KCET Burbank, California 2016-10-27 William D. Estrada, Curator of California and American History and Chair of the History Department Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Pío de Jesus Pico and his wife, María Ignacia Alvarado Pico, in 1852, with two…