Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity.
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This article discuss how the Brazilian example was debated and appropriated by politicians, scientists, and other members of the white US elite, who in the post-abolition period were preparing a nation project which maintained the old slaveholding ideologies of white supremacy and racial segregation, lasting in the country until the twentieth century.
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The Dougla Defect Without Wax 2013-12-15 Sara Bharrat Dougla Defect? Indian speaks to a Dougla woman about her Dougla baby Indian: The baby getting nice now. Now he complexion comin’ lil clear. —(Rochelle Etwaroo photo and testimony) For Rochelle Etwaroo: the hybrid of two great people and a seed of hope. The Dougla Defect is…
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The Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification, and Colonialism The William and Mary Quarterly Volume 73, Number 3, July 2016, 3rd series pages 427-466 Rebecca Earle, Professor School of Comparative American Studies University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom A new model for thinking about the socioracial categories depicted in casta paintings (remarkable eighteenth-century Spanish American…
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Celebrating Japan’s multicultural Olympians The Japan Times 2016-08-17 Naomi Schanen, Staff Writer Meet the athletes flying the flag and challenging traditional views of what it is to be Japanese Japan and Brazil’s ties go back to the early 20th century, when the first Japanese immigrants arrived as farmers in the South American country. Brazil is…
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Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory.
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Half-Caste Actresses in Colonial Brazilian Opera Houses Latin American Theatre Review Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 57-71 DOI: 10.1353/ltr.2012.0016 Rosana Marreco Brescia Universidade Nova de Lisboa Operatic and theatrical historians in both Brazil and Portugal frequently mention that around the last quarter of the 18th century, Queen Maria I forbade women to perform…
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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period.
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The article analyzes Brazilian anthropologist Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s participation in the international debate that involved the field of physical anthropology and discussions on miscegenation in the first decades of the twentieth century.