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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Author and Professor Devyn Benson Speaks on Her Book “Antiracism in Cuba” Block Report Radio 2016-07-14 “Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution” by author and professor Devyn Benson is an impressive study on the history of racism and Black organizing in Cuba prior to the 1959 revolution and right after it. This book is very…
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‘We Are All the Same, We All Are Mestizos’: Imagined Populations and Nations in Genetics Research in Colombia Science as Culture Volume 23, Issue 2, 2014 pages 226-252 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2013.838214 María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, Assistant Professor Department of Design University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Adriana Díaz Del Castillo Hernández, Independent Researcher Consultoría en Estudios…
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Nation and the Absent Presence of Race in Latin American Genomics Current Anthropology Volume 55, Number 5 (October 2014) pages 497-522 DOI: 10.1086/677945 Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Vivette García Deister, Associate Professor Social Studies of Science Laboratory National Autonomous University of Mexico Michael Kent, Honorary Research Fellow in Social Anthropology…
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Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels Bucknell University Press 2015 252 pages ISBN 9781611486209 Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt, Tennessee This book examines the nature and function of the main female characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic argument is that…
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A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism Duke University Press 2001 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2210-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2239-9 Roberto Schwarz Translated by: John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work…
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Daniel, G. Reginald. Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2012. Print. [McNee Review] ellipsis (now Journal of Lusophone Studies) Volume 13 (2015) pages 255-257 Malcolm K. McNee, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the…
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The Deceptive Realism of Machado de Assis. A Dissenting Interpretation of Dom Casmurro Francis Cairns Publications 1984 215 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-905205-19-9 John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the…