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: Arts
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How Pat Cleveland Conquered Racism to Become the World’s First Black Supermodel Harper’s Bazaar 2016-06-15 Kate Storey, News Edtor Photograph: Kathryn Wirsing Pat Cleveland was 16 years old when she was told she would never make it as a model. It was the late Sixties, and Cleveland, who had just signed with Ford Models, was…
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The 18th-century Brazilian sculptor Aleijadinho was the mixed-race son of a black slave and one of his country’s most legendary artists. In the gold-rich state of Minas Gerais, where millions lost their lives in the mines, tourists still pay to visit the immaculate baroque churches he embellished.
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Pat Cleveland: Early Supermodel and Author With Many Tales The New York Times 2016-06-15 Guy Trebay, Chief Menswear Critic The fashion model Pat Cleveland in her home studio in New Jersey. Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times WILLINGBORO, N.J. — The peacocks were rooting around in the bushes, strutting and pecking and ruffling…
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9 Famous Faces On The Struggles And Beauty Of Being Afro-Latino The Huffington Post 2016-02-18 Carolina Moreno, Editor Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes to identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black and Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences. The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every…
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A Brazilian Artist’s ‘Self-Portraits’ Explore The Beauty Of Interracial Identity The Huffington Post 2016-06-17 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor In honor of mestizaje, Adriana Varejão paints herself donning the markings and ornamentation of Native Americans. In 1976, a Brazilian census asked citizens of the country — for the very first time — to…
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Visible and Invisible Hapa Exhibit at Japanese American Museum San Jose Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2016-05-20 Grace Hwang Lynch Bay Area people… there’s an exhibit about the history of hapa Japanese Americans at the Japanese American Museum in San Jose. Titled Visible and Invisible, it’s similar to the exhibit of the same…
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Yara Shahidi, the Iranian-American Star of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Breaking Stereotypes On & Off Screen Muftah 2016-06-03 Alex Shams Over the last two years, the hit ABC sitcom “Black-ish” has deftly explored issues of race, class, and gender in the United States through the eyes of an upper-middle class, African-American family. The show has received rave…
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Large Abroad | London poet laureate Raymond Antrobus staying true to Jamaican roots The Gleaner Kingston, Jamaica 2016-06-13 Andre Poyser Raymond Antrobus Raymond Antrobus continues to be in strong contention to be named Young Poet Laureate for London – a position awarded annually to a poet age 21-30 living in the United Kingdom capital. Antrobus,…
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On her funky second album, “Black Terry Cat,” the genre-bender explores identity, police violence and the hidden labor of Latino/a restaurant workers.