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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With over 50,000 Chinese-Jamaicans residing on the Caribbean island, how did such a unique community form?
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Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic: Race and Citizenship, 1780–1850 Routledge 2020-08-07 252 pages 5 b/w Illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780367494926 eBook ISBN: 9781003046813 Federica Morelli, Associate Professor of History of the Americas University of Turin, Turin, Italy This book grapples with the important contemporary question of the boundaries of citizenship and access to…
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Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
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Silvia Hector Webber played a foundational role in leading freedom seekers to safe havens by ferrying them away from US bondage to freedom destinations in Mexico.2
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Adopting a hemispheric perspective, this essay problematizes the construct of latinidad by foregrounding how it reproduces Black erasure.
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Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance Global Urban History 2016-12-19 Erika Edwards, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Charlotte Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina’s first president (1826-27) was nicknamed “Doctor Chocolate.” Painting by Mirta Toledo, 2013 It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I,…
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Because family history is inevitably colonial history, I am invested in what and who is left out of the family album and outside of colonial history. Of particular (and selfish) interest to me is the impossibility of subjects of African and Chinese heritage.
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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean.