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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Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity The Calvert Journal 2016-02-04 Photography by Liz Johnson Artur Photograph by Liz Johnson Artur “When people ask me about my background I usually start by explaining how my mum is Russian, my dad is Ghanaian and that I was born in…
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This issue considers the oeuvre of Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) as a prism through which to examine individual and collective subject formation in the postcolonial French-writing Caribbean, the wider Afro-Americas, and beyond.
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Infiltrating the colonial city through the imaginaries of Metissage: Saint-Louis (Senegal), Saint-Pierre (Martinique) and Jeremie (Haiti) University of Iowa August 2015 281 pages Avonelle Pauline Remy, Assistant Professor of French Hope College, Holland, Michigan A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in French and Francophone World Studies…
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Mexico Finally Recognized Its Black Citizens, But That’s Just The Beginning The Huffington Post 2016-01-27 Krithika Varagur Associate Editor, What’s Working In Mexico, like everywhere, identity is complex. Last month, for the first time ever, the Mexican government recognized its 1.38 million citizens of African descent in a national survey. The survey served as a…
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Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade
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Daniel Lind Ramos and the Visual Politics of Race in Puerto Rican Art Theory and Critique of Art in the Caribbean 2015-11-11 Fabienne Viala, Associate Professor; Director of the Year Abroad; Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies School of Modern Languages and Cultures University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom This article discusses…
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“What? Black people in the Dominican Republic?” Yes amig@*, there are Black Dominican people whose ancestors descend from the African motherland. However, the question is not so much, “Are there Black people in the Dominican Republic?” as it is “Are Dominican people Black?”
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The Relationship of Identity to the Organizational Development of FLECHAS: Perceptions of Race from a Puerto Rican Perspective The Forensic Examiner June 2015 Raul A. Avila The Puerto Rican preoccupation with “whitening” and incidents of black racism obfuscate Puerto Rican identity. The “deliberate amnesia” regarding their genetic and cultural connection with Black African slaves compels…
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Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica African American Intellectual History Society 2015-10-12 Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History Michigan State University Pierre Eugène du Simitière, ca. 1757-1774 One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came upon a black man…