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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Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality by Anita González (review) Latin American Music Review Volume 34, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2013 pages 288-291 DOI: 10.1353/lat.2013.0019 Alex E. Chávez, Visiting Assistant Professor Latin American and Latino Studies Program University of Illinois, Chicago Anita González, Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality. With photographs by George O. Jackson and…
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The symbolics of blood: Mestizaje in the Americas Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 3, Issue 4, 1997 (Special Issue: Race and Place) pages 495-521 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.1997.9962576 Carol A. Smith, Professor Emerita of Anthropology University of California, Davis Mestizaje, a significant process of identity formation in Latin America based on presumed race mixture,…
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Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico
Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 9, Issue 3, 2002 pages 281-304 DOI: 10.1080/10702890213969 Isar Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey In this article, I critique some of the discursive terms in which blackness is…
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The Martinican concept of “creoleness”: A multiracial redefinition of culture. Mots Pluriels Number 7, (July 1998): Third Space and Cross-Cultural Identities—Mestissage – Tiers Espace – Identite Beverley Ormerod, Associate Professor of French University of Western Australia In the 1930s, black and coloured intellectuals from the French Caribbean colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane sought for…
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Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins Manchester University Press October 2007 192 pages 216 x 138 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7190-7432-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7190-8844-5 Dolores Tierney, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins is the first book-length English language account of Emilio Fernández (1904-1986) the most…