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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“She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body” traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis
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Stateless in the Dominican Republic Columbia Law School 2015-12-15 Media Contact: Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu Human Rights Lawyers Champion the Rights of Disenfranchised Dominicans of Haitian Descent, in a Talk at Columbia Law School New York, December 15, 2015—The plight of more than 200,000 people in the Dominican Republic who were stripped of their…
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Mexico ‘discovers’ 1.4 million black Mexicans—they just had to ask Fusion 2015-12-15 Rafa Fernandez De Castro For the first time in its history, Mexico’s census bureau has recognized the country’s black population in a national survey that found there are approximately 1.4 million citizens (1.2% of the population) who self-identify as “Afro-Mexican” or “Afro-descendant.” The…
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No one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Lottery, Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann’s mother did not want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive.
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Mistura for the fans: performing mixed-race Japanese Brazilianness in Japan Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 36, Issue 6, 2015 pages 710-728 DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1095714 Zelideth María Rivas, Assistant Professor of Japanese Department of Modern Languages Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia In this article, I examine fans’ consumption of mixed-race Japanese Brazilian female bodies in Japan. The article…
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Mariage et métissage dans les sociétés coloniales: Amériques, Afrique et Iles de l’Océan Indien (XVIe–XXe–siècles) (Marriage and misgeneration [miscegenation?] in colonial societies: Americas, Africa and islands of the Indian ocean (XVIth–XXth centuries)) Peter Lang 2015 357 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0343-1605-7 DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0352-0295-3 Edited by: Guy Brunet, Vice President Société de Démographie Historique, Paris, France also:…
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1.38 Million Afro-Descendants Are Identified on the Mexican Census for the First Time Remezcla 2015-12-10 Yara Simón Since the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexico’s national identity has been defined by mestizaje – a term that recognizes mixed racial ancestry of the New World after colonization. But although Mexico’s African presence was considerable from the start of…
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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora by Bénédicte Boisseron (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 661-664 John Patrick Walsh, Assistant Professor of French University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania In this outstanding book, Bénédicte Boisseron challenges received ideas on Caribbean literature and critical paradigms that have sedimented…
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Leaving to learn Columbia Daily Spectator 2015-12-02 Claire Liebmann Courtesy of Karl Jacoby Several years ago while browsing newspaper clippings online, Karl Jacoby, a history professor at Columbia, came across the story of William Ellis—a Texan slave who built a million dollar fortune while posing as a Mexican millionaire in New York, essentially hacking the…
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National Affairs: Who Would Be King Time 1923-10-08 Word came to the U. S. that William Henry Ellis, who preferred to style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous…