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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One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at University of Maryland University of Maryland, College Park The Stamp (Adele H. Stamp Student Union) [Directions] Atrium Room Friday, 2013-03-29, 17:00-19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sponsored by the Multiracial Biracial Student Association (MBSA), Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy…
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Some commentators predict that ethnoracial distinctions in the United States will disappear in the twenty-first century. Perhaps they are right, but there is ample cause to doubt it. And a glance at the history of Brazil, where physical mixing even of blacks and whites has magnificently failed to achieve social justice and to eliminate a…
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands James Blackwood Paternoster Row 1857 198 pages Mary Seacole (1805-1881) Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century. In her long and varied life, she travelled in Central America, Russia, and Europe; found work as an inn-keeper and as a…
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New Latin American pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio not a person of color? New York Amsterdam News New York, New York 2013-03-21 Courtenay Brown, Special to the AmNews The installation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I on March 13 caused a stir of questions regarding his race. Yes, he was the first pope from…
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The Slum [O Cortiço] Oxford University Press March 2000 (First published in 1890) 240 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 9780195121872; ISBN 10: 0195121872 Aluísio Azevedo Edited and Translated by David H. Rosenthal Features an informative introduction by translator David H. Rosenthal First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo’s masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most…
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(Miscege)nación en O Cortiço Trans: Revue de Littérature Générale et Comparée Issue 5 (2008) 10 pages (24 paragraphs) Brian L. Price, Assistant Professor of Spanish Wake Forest University Written a year after the proclamation of Brazilian independence, O Cortiço by Aluisio Azevedo depicts the demographic composition of the country with a naturalistic sense of detail…