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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Dark skin, blue eyes: Genes paint a picture of 7,000-year-old European NBC News 2014-01-26 Alan Boyle, Science Editor A 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin of an African, but the blue eyes of a Scandinavian. He was a hunter-gatherer who ate a low-starch diet and couldn’t…
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This groundbreaking history traces the development of Germany’s black community, from its origins in colonial Africa to its decimation by the Nazis during World War II.
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The Propaganda War in the Rhineland: Weimar Germany, Race and Occupation after World War I I. B. Tauris 2013-02-28 352 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781780763460 216 x 134mm Peter Collar Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops. This…
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Editorial January 2014: On Reading Two Recent Memoirs by Afro-Germans The Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) January 2014 Gundolf Graml, Associate Professor of German and Director of German Studies Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Two recent memoirs by German authors with an African connection emphasize that German history cannot be written without including the…
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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…
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Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: Erinnerungen eines Afro-Deutschen [Being German and also Being Black: Memoirs of an Afro-German] Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag November 2013 200 pages Hardback ISBN: ISBN 978-3-423-26005-3 ePub ISBN: 978-3-423-42033-4 eBook ISBN: 978-3-423-42034-1 Theodor Michael Theodor Michaels Autobiografie ist so aberwitzig, dass sie erfunden sein könnte, wenn sie nicht allzu wahr wäre. Er entfaltet…
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Documentary ‘Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story’ Tells Untold Stories of Bi-Racial World War II Era Children The AFRO 2014-01-15 Maria Adebola Emmy-winning journalist Regina Griffin was inspired to tell a story and that’s how her film, Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story was born. A family friend, entrepreneur Doris McMillon, had told stories about growing up…
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The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television [Galvin Review] Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2014-01-13 Steven Galvin, Editor Dr Zélie Asava introduces her book The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television, a critical investigation of race in contemporary Irish visual…
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Drawing from exhaustive research in the Netherlands, Europe and the Americas, Altena offers illuminating new insights into mixed-marriage families as they were depicted in the arts and in news media; and how the families themselves in turn reacted to, and influenced those images. The author focuses on well-documented individuals and shows how they gained a…
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Science in support of racial mixture: Charles-Augustin Vandermonde’s Enlightenment program for improving the health and beauty of the human species Endeavor Available online 2013-12-25 (Corrected Proof) DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2013.11.001 Clara Pinto-Correia Instituto de Investigação Científica Bento da Rocha Cabral, Lisboa, Portugal Centro de Estudos de História e Filosofia das Ciências, Évora, Portugal João Lourenço Monteiro Departamento…