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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More Than A Few Words About Post-War German Cinema, Race and ‘Toxi’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora 2012-08-01 Sergio Mims, Staff Writer For anyone interested in foreign films, one of the most interesting periods of German filmmaking was the post war period between 1946 to the mid 1960’s. In effect, only…
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The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Volume 7, Number 2 (2010) pages 205-216 DOI: 10.1007/s11673-010-9224-8 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University In this paper I investigate a largely untold chapter in the history of…
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Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’ The New York Times 2012-07-13 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic Olga Nenya and her foster and adopted children in 2008, in front of their house in Ukraine, as seen in the documentary directed by Julia Ivanova. First Pond Entertainment “Family Portrait in Black and White,”…
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The Afro-German project of Asoka Esuruoso and Philipp Khabo Köpsell AfrokanLife 2012-04-15 Arriving in the future, Stories of Home and Exile will be an interdisciplinary approach to positioning. As a collection of poetry, short stories and academic essays on identity written by Black Writers who regard Germany as their home, and those who regard it…
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Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.
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Germany gets first ever black mayor The Local: Germany’s News in English Berlin, Germany 2012-06-02 John Ehret, a black German who used to work for the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, is Germany’s first black mayor. The 40-year-old Ehret, whose father was an African-American soldier and mother a native German, took over running…
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Ireland and African-America Clinton Institute for American Studies University College Dublin, Ireland 2012-03-09 through 2012-03-11 Report On the 9 – 10 March 2012, The Clinton Institute for American Studies held a two day international conference entitled Ireland and African-America. Unfortunately, the main keynote speaker Ishmael Reed had to withdraw from the conference on the 6…
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Framing a Deterritorialized, Hybrid Alternative to Nationalist Essentialism in the Postcolonial Era: Tjalie Robinson and the Diasporic Eurasian “Indo” Community Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies Volume 16, Numbers 1/2, (Spring/Fall 2007) pages 1-28 DOI: 10.1353/dsp.2007.0002 Jeroen Dewulf, Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies University of California, Berkeley In her study of Transnational South Asians…
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Bessora: A Writer with a Thirty-Eight Shoe Size Wasafiri Volume 24, Issue 2 (2009) pages 60-65 DOI: 10.1080/02690050902771779 Adele King The character of literary criticism combined with pedagogical strategies tends to categorise, moving one accepted orthodoxy forward by pushing another out of the way. Early approaches to European literature were to treat it as a…
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A Dissertation submitted to the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.