Mixed Race Studies

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  • Large Abroad | London poet laureate Raymond Antrobus staying true to Jamaican roots

    Large Abroad | London poet laureate Raymond Antrobus staying true to Jamaican roots The Gleaner Kingston, Jamaica 2016-06-13 Andre Poyser Raymond Antrobus Raymond Antrobus continues to be in strong contention to be named Young Poet Laureate for London – a position awarded annually to a poet age 21-30 living in the United Kingdom capital. Antrobus,…

  • Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire

    Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire San Antonio Express-News San Antonio, Texas 2016-06-11 Joe O’Connell Former slave passes as Mexican millionaire Historian Karl Jacoby was driving near the Texas-Mexico border when he was stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol, the agency charged with keeping Mexicans out of the United States. He explained, to their dismay,…

  • Does Race Matter in Latin America?

    Does Race Matter in Latin America? Foreign Affairs Volume 94, Number 2 (March/April 2015) Deborah J. Yashar, Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University In 1992, the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the daughter of poor Guatemalan peasants, for her work promoting indigenous rights. Her prize, momentous in its…

  • Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil

    Impeachment, culture wars and the politics of identity in Brazil The Conversation 2016-05-26 Marshall Eakin, Professor of History Vanderbilt University Brazil is in the midst of its worst political crisis since the 1960s and possibly its most severe economic downturn in the last 100 years. The economy will not – and cannot – improve until…

  • A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: La Morocha Argentina in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900–2015

    A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: La Morocha Argentina in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900–2015 Journal of Social History DOI: 10.1093/jsh/shw018 First published online: 2016-06-01 Ezequiel Adamovsky This article explores the origins of La morocha argentina as an unofficial national emblem, the personification of the quintessential Argentinean woman, from its…

  • Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity

    In “Negras in Brazil,” Kia Lilly Caldwell examines the life experiences of Afro-Brazilian women whose stories have until now been largely untold. This pathbreaking study analyzes the links between race and gender and broader processes of social, economic, and political exclusion.

  • Dominican Anti-Blackness

    Dominican Anti-Blackness bluestockings magazine 2016-05-02 Perla Montas We were socialized from an early age to name blackness. To taunt it, to call it names. My friends and I compared skin colors as we played the “who’s blacker?” game. “You’re blacker than me, Perla!” “Haitiana, you lose!” My parents groomed an identity that privileged straight hair…

  • Race, revolution and interracial relations: Revisiting rapper Emicida’s video ‘Boa Esperança’, the most courageous video of 2015

    Race, revolution and interracial relations: Revisiting rapper Emicida’s video ‘Boa Esperança’, the most courageous video of 2015 Black Women of Brazil 2016-04-25 Note from BW of Brazil: Get ready! Today’s piece is one of those long articles in which you must read every word in order to get the full significance. The rapper known as…

  • Anna In-Between

    Anna In-Between Akashic Books 2010-08-17 352 pages Paperback IBSN: 9781936070695 Hardcover IBSN: 9781933354842 Elizabeth Nunez, Distinguished Professor of English Hunter College, the City University of New York Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez’s finest achievement to date. In spare prose, with laserlike attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns…

  • Ethnicity does not define one’s character

    Ethnicity does not define one’s character The Royal Gazette Hamilton, Bermuda 2016-04-15 Christopher Famous There has been debate on social media recently about good hair vs bad hair, persons of mixed ethnicities, light skin vs dark skin. After a conversation with someone deeply concerned with these issues, I decided to dig up a column I…