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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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present by Jeffrey Lesser (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 45, Number 3, Winter 2015 pages 449-451 Samuel L. Baily, Professor Emeritus of History Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jeffrey Lesser, Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present (Cambridge,…
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present Cambridge University Press January 2013 219 pages 19 b/w illus. 1 map 19 tables 229 x 153 x 14 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521193627 Paperback ISBN: 9780521145350 eBook ISBN: 9781139602723 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Immigration, Ethnicity, and…
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In Memoriam: María Elena Martínez-López, 47 University of Southern California News 2014-11-20 Susan Bell, Senior Writer (213) 740-7894 María Elena Martínez-López, associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife and a leading scholar of colonial Latin America has died. She was 47. Martínez-López died at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by…
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Pope Francis Prays for New Ways of Development in Latin America. America: The National Catholic Review 2014-12-12 Gerard O’Connell, Associate Editor/Vatican Correspondent The enchanting music and song of the Missa Criolla resounded through St Peter’s Basilica on the evening of December 12 as Francis, the first Latin American pope, celebrated mass on the feast of…
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‘Pelo Malo’ Is A Rare Look Into Latin American Race Relations Morning Edition National Public Radio 2014-12-10 Jasmine Garsd, Reporter and Host NPR Music’s Alt.Latino Actor Samuel Lange Zambrano plays Junior, a boy who becomes obsessed with relaxing his hair. Courtesy of the artist “Pelo Malo” means “bad hair” in Spanish. It’s a term that…
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‘Pelo Malo’ Director Mariana Rondon: Why Her Movie Hits A Nerve NBC News 2014-11-19 Sandra Guzman For Latinos born with Afro-textured, curly hair or kinky hair – referred to as pelo malo or “bad hair” in Latin America and the Caribbean – their experiences can be quite intense and in many cases negative, as an…