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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Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’ Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala German History Volume 34, Issue 2 (June 2016) pages 214-236 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghw017 Julie Gibbings, Assistant Professor of History University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada In contemporary Guatemala, Q’eqchi’ Mayas of German descent are reclaiming identities as ‘the improved race’…
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Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House Literary Hub 2016-04-21 Bridget Read Brooklyn, New York Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism In November of last year, Tin House published the text of a speech given by the author Claire Vaye Watkins, in which she spoke…
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Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars…
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This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade.
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The Calumet Roundtable: A Discussion with Samantha Joyce The Calumet Roundtable 2016-04-07 Lee Artz, Host and Professor of Communication Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana Samantha Joyce, Professor of Mass Communication Indiana University, South Bend In this episode of “The Calumet Roundtable,” host Dr. Lee Artz, Professor of Communication at Purdue University Calumet, and guest Dr.…
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Envisioning the United States in the Latin American myth of ‘racial democracy mestizaje’ Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online 2016-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2016.1170953 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Transnational comparison is relevant both to how racial hierarchy is obscured and elucidated. This Essay traces how…
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“A Escrava Isaura,” the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimarães, was one of a number of late 19th century works of fiction in Brazil that focused on abolitionism.
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Poetry Betrays Whiteness Harriet: A Poetry Blog Poetry Foundation 2016-04-12 Lucas de Lima (Introduction by Daniel Borzutzky) Among the many pointed questions that Lucas de Lima raises in “Poetry Betrays Whiteness” is that of how positions of unitedstatesian privilege can be used “to fight structural inequality and global anti-blackness.” This far-reaching essay touches upon, among…