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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Germans Loving Others: Narrating Interracial Romance in Kenya, North America, and Guatemala 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 70: Central European History Society 3 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University Papers: “Seeking Winnetou:…
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Coloured Members of the Bahamian House of Assembly in the Nineteenth Century College of the Bahamas Research Journal Volume 10 (2001) Rosalyn Themistocleous This article focuses on some little known ‘coloured’ members of the House of Assembly of the nineteenth century. The position of the Bahamians of mixed race is discussed, particularly vis-à-vis the white…
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Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Lines in the Borderlands: Mixed Peoples in Transitional North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 108 Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Cornet Room (Sheraton New Orleans) Chair: Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles Papers: “‘I Do Not Know…
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Mestizaje nacional: una historia “negra” por contar / National miscegenation: a “negro” history yet to be told Memoria y Sociedad Volume 14, Number 29 (2010) pages 91-105 Diana Catalina Zapata-Cortés Historiadora de la Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia This work analyzes the “negro” representation in the projects of folklore diffusion that spread in the…
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Bolivia’s Census Omits ‘Mestizo’ as Category The New York Times 2012-11-21 The Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia is under a virtual curfew as census-takers count and classify the landlocked Andean nation’s population in its first census in 11 years. Stirring controversy was the government decision not to include “mestizo” as a category…
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Children of Empire: The Fate of Mixed-Race Individuals in British India, the Caribbean, and the Early American Republic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 105: North American Conference on British Studies Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom III (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Kathleen…
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Curious Studies of Mixed Bloods in the West Indies Timaru Herald Timaru, New Zealand Volume XXXVI, Issue 2366 1882-04-22 page 3 Source: Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa The following is contributed by the Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune—There has been an interesting diicussion on the negro…
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Brazil’s Affirmative-Action Quotas: Progress? The Chronicle of Higher Education 2012-11-05 Ibram H. Rogers, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies State University of New York, Albany Brazil recently passed what was probably the most sweeping affirmative-action law in the modern history of higher education. While the livelihood of affirmative action in the United States is in the…