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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The 18th-century Brazilian sculptor Aleijadinho was the mixed-race son of a black slave and one of his country’s most legendary artists. In the gold-rich state of Minas Gerais, where millions lost their lives in the mines, tourists still pay to visit the immaculate baroque churches he embellished.
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A Brazilian Artist’s ‘Self-Portraits’ Explore The Beauty Of Interracial Identity The Huffington Post 2016-06-17 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor In honor of mestizaje, Adriana Varejão paints herself donning the markings and ornamentation of Native Americans. In 1976, a Brazilian census asked citizens of the country — for the very first time — to…
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Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil Duke University Press 1999 304 pages 11 b&w photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2260-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2292-4 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Winner, Brazil in Comparative Perspective section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Best Book…
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Café con leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela University of Texas Press 1990 184 pages 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-292-79080-3 Winthrop R. Wright, Professor Emeritus of History University of Maryland For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well…
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Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of Latin American History Universidad Nacional de Colombia This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.