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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A new film aims to highlight a Nazi “secret” mission to sterilize hundreds of Afro German children.
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Remapping Black Germany collects thirteen pieces that consider the wide array of issues facing Black German groups and individuals across turbulent periods, spanning the German colonial period, National Socialism, divided Germany, and the enormous outpouring of Black German creativity after 1986.
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CFC: Call for Conveners: Seeking Host for AfroEuropeans Conference, 2019 H-Black-Europe: dedicated to the study of Europe and the Black Diaspora Friday, 2017-06-30 Kira Thurman CfC – Call for Conveners: 7th AfroEuropes Conference 2019 The research network behind Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe conferences is now looking for a scholar or a team…
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Jim Sheridan is working on the documentary about his rise to stardom.
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“Brown Babies” in Postwar Europe: The Italian Case Max Weber Lecture No. 2016/03 European University Institute 2016 12 pages Silvana Patriarca, Professor of History Fordham University, New York, New York The paper addresses the issue of the persistence of the idea of race in its close intersection with ideas of national identities in post-1945 Europe,…
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Oxford, England–Belgium’s Catholic Church has apologized for its role in mistreating mixed-race people, who were born in colonial times to European fathers and African mothers and later taken away for adoption.
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What is critical in understanding Spicer’s offensive statement is assessing not only his erasure of the violence enacted on the Jewish community during the Holocaust, but also the effacing of the experiences of Afro-Germans, African-Americans, and persons of African descent during the Nazi era.
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The village of Avato, in the northeastern prefecture of Xanthi, is home to a unique community whose ancestors are believed to have come to Greece from Sudan during Ottoman rule
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At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Płaszów,” Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her…