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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- 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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Brazil’s government has taken important steps to combat racial inequalities over the past two decades. Afro-Brazilian populations nevertheless remain socially and economically excluded, continuing patterns that began with legal slavery.
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015-03-31 48 pages Hardcover ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102293 eBook ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102286 Margarita Engle Rafael López In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female…
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Black Mexicans face considerable hurdles Compton Herald 2015-06-05 Alexis Okeowo Mexicanos negros (black Mexicans) face considerable hurdles; Afro-Mexicans are marginalized and excluded to the point that it is impossible to find any mention of them in official records The first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect…
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Report Says Census Undercounts Mixed Race The New York Times 2015-06-11 Richard Pérez-Peña, National Desk The number of American adults with mixed-race backgrounds is three times what official census figures indicate, and the figure is rising fast, according to a survey released Thursday. But most do not call themselves multiracial. The Pew Research Center survey…
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Exhibit: “AfroBrasil: Art and Identities” National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum 1701 4th Street SW Albuquerque, New Mexico Friday, December 12, 2014 to mid-August, 2015; Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00 MT; Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-17:00 MT Brazil* hosted soccer’s World Cup in the summer of 2014, and soon will host the 2016 Summer Olympics. While many are familiar with these events…
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10 Afro-Puerto Ricans Everyone Should Know La Respuesta: A magazine to (Re)Imagine Boricua Diaspora 2015-06-03 La Respuesta magazine is dedicated to both resurrecting lost history and highlighting marginalized communities within our “gran familia puertorriqueña”. Afrodescendientes boricuas is one such community, who are, at best – forgotten or ignored – and at worst – exoticized, feared,…
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The Challenge of Mixed-Blood Nations Indian Country Today Media Network 2015-04-25 Duane Champagne, Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies; Professor of Law University of California, Los Angeles Countries with indigenous nations usually also have mixed-blood nations composed of people of indigenous descent and other nations or races. In an increasingly shrinking world where ethnicity…
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From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641–1688 Ethnohistory Volume 62, Number 2, April 2015 pages 361-384 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2854356 Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, Assistant Professor of History University of Rochester This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles during the seventeenth…