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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The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…
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Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Penn State University Press 2005-08-18 304 pages 6 x 9, 8 illustrations/5 maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-02693-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-271-02694-7 Elizabeth W. Kiddy, Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania Blacks of the Rosary tells the…
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Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue University of Georgia Press March 2001 344 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3029-7 Stewart R. King, Associate Professor of History Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, Oregon By the late 1700s, half the free population of Saint Domingue was black. The French…
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“The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality” explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period.
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Film Review: Marley Film Journal International 2012-04-18 Marsha McCreadie Marley, the documentary by Oscar-winning Kevin Macdonald about the legendary musician and national and international symbol for individual rights, should sparkle and sing—OK, there’s some of that—but it just sort of hums along. Maybe you can’t catch this particular lightning in a bottle, but there might…
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The Legend of Marley: Kevin Macdonald considers reggae, Rasta and politics in new documentary Film Journal International 2012-04-19 Doris Toumarkine It’s taken several decades and faced many frustrating setbacks, but a richly documented and worthy film about the late reggae superstar Bob Marley has at last been realized. Previously attached to Martin Scorsese and Jonathan…