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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This essay will illustrate how attitudes toward complexion, within the black community, are a direct consequence and perpetual remnant of the white supremacy and racial hierarchy that developed in colonized societies.
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Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
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Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong Harper Perennial (an imprint of Harper Collins) 2021-02-23 304 pages 5x8in Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780063009486 E-book ISBN: 9780063009493 Audiobook ISBN: 9780063009509 Georgina Lawton Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were…
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A century of European immigration brought with it a comprehensive effort to erase the country’s multiracial past. Only recently has that been reversed.
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“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of “Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,” the newest work by Black feminist theorist, literary critic, and historian Hazel Carby.
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As much as I insist on reaffirming my black roots, people always think the opposite.
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The presence of Afro-Argentines had a significant and irrefutable effect on Argentine culture, although their origins have been for the most part erased. For instance, tango— ironically one of Argentina’s most well-known cultural contributions around the world— was a direct result of African influence.
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Millions of people living on the islands today inherited genes from the people who made them home before Europeans arrived.
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Genetic continuity across transitions in pottery styles reveals that cultural changes during the Ceramic Age were not driven by migration of genetically differentiated groups from the mainland, but instead reflected interactions within an interconnected Caribbean world.