Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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AfroLatin@s in Action: Making a Difference through Research, Education & the Arts Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor New York, New York 10012 Thursday, 2015-10-15, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Join us for a discussion led by AfroCuban author, bibliographer, and activist Tomás Fernandez Robaína on the crucial role of books in…
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My First Event at the Schomburg – “Resisting Limitations: AfroLatinos and Radical Identity” the colored boy 2015-10-01 Alexander Hardy So, I’m doing a thing at the Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture for Hispanic Heritage Month. But unlike the majority of the celebrations, lists of notable Latinos and mainstream media representations of people in…
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Garifuna: The Young Black Latino Exodus You’ve Never Heard About Fusion 2014-06-04 Jasmine Garsd Honduran migrants passing through Mexico often carry only the bare essentials: cash, some clothes and a cell phone, if they can afford one. Gustavo Morales stands out among the migrant population here in Tequixquiac, a hot, dusty little town right outside…
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To Be Black And Boricua La Respuesta 2015-09-17 At this year’s Afro-Latino Festival of New York, La Respuesta teamed up with Project Bronx, the community-focused web series, for an exciting video collaboration. We spoke with festival attendees, artists, and vendors about a theme central to the festival’s focus. For the past 3 years, the Afro-Latino…
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Guadalupe and the Castas: The Power of a Singular Colonial Mexican Painting Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Volume 31, Number 2 pages 218-247 DOI: 10.1525/mex.2015.31.2.218 Sarah Cline, Research Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara A mid-eighteenth-century casta painting by Luis de Mena uniquely unites the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and casta (mixed-race) groupings,…
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In Memoriam: Tony Gleaton The afrolatin@ forum 2015-09-01 Tony Gleaton, among the first photographers to document Latin Americans of African descent, passed away last week. He leaves behind an impressive body of work which undoubtedly contributed to the growing Black consciousness movement throughout the Americas. Tony began his Latin American photographic journey in the southern…
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Mixed Emotions About My Mixed Heritage Just Analise 2015-09-02 Analise Kandasammy When you truly love yourself you are released from the chains of trying to be someone you are not. How many times have we heard – if you can’t love yourself, you can’t truly love anyone else? How many times have we heard we…