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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FOR the first time during Black History Month, an exhibition celebrating mixed race Irish has gone on display in the London Irish Centre.
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WHEN she was growing up in County Tipperary in the 1960s, Lorraine Maher (pictured) met no other black people and on the few occasions they came into her midst she would avoid them.
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‘We were the unspoken story of Ireland’ BBC News 2016-10-13 The #IamIrish exhibition in north London explores what it means to be mixed race and Irish. Watch the video (00:02:21) here.
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‘I shouldn’t have to defend my Irishness’ – tackling the identity struggles faced by mixed race Irish The Irish Post 2016-10-10 Erica Doyle Higgins, Digital Reporter The above image of Lorraine Maher Faissal as a child is the main image of the #IAmIrish Project. (Picture: Lorraine Maher Faissal) FOR the first time a photography exhibition…
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The Black Prince of Florence: A Medici Mystery University of York Room K/133, King’s Manor York, United Kingdom Tuesday, 2016-10-18, 19:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Month Lecture Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her first book, The Divorce of Henry VIII, was published in 2012 and brought to life…
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A new exhibition in London challenges the perceptions of what Irish people look like
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This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.
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Black History Month – #IMIRISH Exhibition Launch London Irish Center 50-52 Camden Square London, United Kingdom, NW1 9XB 2016-10-06 through 2016-10-31, 19:00 BST (Local Time) #Iamirish a Photography Exhibition launching a series of workshops and debates linking those of mixed race heritage to their Irish family ancestry. The Exhibition will be opened by Dan Mulhall,…
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Luck O’ the Irish: Black Artists from the Emerald Isle SoulTrain.com 2016-03-17 Rhonda Nicole, Managing Editor U2 graced us with one of the greatest songs in the history of music, “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” and spammed everyone’s Apple devices with an album many never asked for (2014’s Songs of Innocence). Sinéad O’Connor…
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A look at historical multiracial families through the House of Medici OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2016-09-04 Catherine Fletcher Catherine Fletcher is author of The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. The Medici, rulers of Renaissance Florence, are not the most obvious…