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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U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove’s ‘Sonata Mulattica’ to be Adapted for Film UVA Today Charlottesville, Virginia 2013-05-07 Anne E. Bromley, Associate Little did poet Rita Dove know when she published her book, “Sonata Mulattica,” that it would go beyond rescuing from obscurity a 19th-century, Afro-European violin virtuoso named George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. Now that book of…
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A True History Full of Romance: Mixed marriages and ethnic identity in Dutch art, news media, and popular culture (1883–1955) by Marga Altena (review) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 15, Number 3, Winter 2014 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2014.0039 Eveline Buchheim, Researcher NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Altena, Marga, A…
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Section of Creative Media lecturer to speak at Global Mixed Race conference in Chicago Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2014-11-10 Kathryn Moley Communications Office Dundalk Institute of Technology is incredibly proud to announce that Joint Programme Director of Video and Film in the Institute, Zélie Asava, is travelling to Chicago, to participate…
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When White People See Themselves With Black Skin, Something Interesting Happens The Huffington Post 2014-12-15 Anna Almendrala, Healthy Living Editor Macrina Cooper-White, Associate Science Editor The antidote to racism partly lies in empathy, or the willingness to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” as the saying goes. But scientists from universities across Europe are…
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On The Cusp of Dual Identities #Dispatch: Afropean Everywhere All The Time 2014-11-10 Bani Amor Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist interested in issues of Afro-European identity. He won a Decibel Penguin Prize for a short story included in the ‘The Map of Me’; a Penguin books anthology about mixed-race identity. He…