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: Europe
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Curiosity about the photograph – who the girl was and what she was doing in Germany – set the award-winning film-maker off on a path that led to Where Hands Touch, a new movie starring Amandla Stenberg and George MacKay.
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The realities of being mixed-race are unique and often overlooked in mainstream narratives, but documentary maker Ryan Cooper-Brown wants to change that. His new short documentary film “Being Both” tackles issues that directly relate to the mixed-race experience, from displacement and family conflict to racism and fetishisation.
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‘My mixed-race has informed my identity in being at the core of a long search to have one at all – the struggle to fit in and be part of the many countries and cultures I had to adapt to throughout my childhood.
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Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has apologised for the kidnapping of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples during colonial rule in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda.
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A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans
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Using my own family’s history to show that mixed race children are the dross that needed to be removed from Germany, I employed memory and post-memory as my theoretical framing, coupled with authoethnography, family interviews, and narratives as my methodological tools.
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Theaster Gates on how his new show was inspired by the eviction of 45 people from an island in Maine
The Chicago-based artist’s exhibition in Paris examines the forced removal in 1911 of the inhabitants of Malaga Island
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A true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home front