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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What an 1887 murder and dismemberment tells us about race relations today The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-17 Samantha Melamed, Staff Writer On the freezing-cold morning of Feb. 17, 1887, a Bensalem carpenter walking by an ice pond noticed a parcel wrapped in brown paper and marked “handle with care.” Inside, he found a male torso of…
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Jackie Kay: Scotland’s poet of the people The Guardian 2016-03-20 Kevin McKenna Jackie Kay at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh last week. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA To say there was a national outpouring of joy at the appointment of Jackie Kay as Scotland’s makar last week might be overdoing it, but not by much. In…
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Jackie Kay unveiled as the new National Poet, or Makar, of Scotland The Herald Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 2016-03-15 Phil Miller Poet and author Jackie Kay The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay is the new National Poet for Scotland. Ms Kay, who lives in Manchester, who was awarded an MBE for her services to literature in 2006,…
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Raquel Cepeda is a fighter. The renowned writer, journalist and filmmaker is clad in light blue patterned tights and a gray crop top, with her hair pulled back in a ponytail— she is furiously jabbing a black Everlast bag. On this chilly Friday afternoon, we’re at Mendez Boxing where Cepeda spends a good amount of…
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In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self State University of New York Press April 2016 296 pages Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5977-6 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5978-3 Mariana Ortega, Professor of Philosophy John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood. This original study intertwining Latina…
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Dangerous Creole Liaisons: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses from 1806 to 1897 Liverpool University Press 2016-05-02 224 Pages 239 x 163mm Hardback ISBN: 9781781383018 Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies University of Kentucky Dangerous Creole Liaisons explores a French Caribbean context to broaden discussions of sexuality, nation building, and colonialism…
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Black hair is finally fashionable. But on whose terms? – video The Guardian 2016-03-09 Emma Dabiri Growing up with afro hair can be traumatic, especially when white ideals of beauty are everywhere. But, says Emma Dabiri, black women are increasingly letting their natural hair out, and the ‘fro is becoming fashionable. But, she argues, they…