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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‘Longing for Oneself’: Hybridism and Miscegenation in Colonial and Postcolonial Portugal Etnográfica Volume VI, Number 1 (2002) pages 181-200 Miguel Vale de Almeida, Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa This essay acknowledges that hybridism, in a troubling reminiscence of the 19th century debate on race and the hybrids is…
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Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-10-23, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Juliet Hooker, Associate Professor of Government University of Texas, Austin The Mexican philosopher José…
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Identity issues Harvard Gazette 2011-01-28 Stephanie Schorow, Harvard Correspondent ‘Black in Latin America’ examines perceptions of race There were laughs of recognition as Silvio Torres-Saillant, professor of English and humanities at Syracuse University, told a story that underscored a major point of the “Black in Latin America” conference, which kicked off on Jan. 27 at…
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Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) Sudaca Films 2013 Venezuela 93 minutes color Written and Directed by Mariana Rondón Produced by Marité Ugás Starring Samuel Lange as Junior Samantha Castillo as Marta Junior is nine years old and has “bad hair.” He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This…
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The mixing of races in Saint Domingue occasioned a plethora of commentaries, mostly venomous and polemical, on the causes and consequences of the colony’s multiracial order. The most famous of these commentaries, though not the most polemical, was by Moreau de Saint-Méry, the colonial jurist and historian whose writings on Saint-Domingue are still a major…
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The Chinese in Mexico: No Longer a Forgotten History Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-10-09, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles On Today’s episode of Mixed Race Radio we will meet Professor Robert Chao Romero. With…