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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Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Third World Newsreel 2012 84 minutes Germany English/German with English Subtitles Dagmar Schultz 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color,…
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Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story Third World Newsreel 1997 28 minutes Germany German with English Subtitles Maria Binder A moving documentary about the life and untimely death of Ghanaian-German poet, academic and political personality May Ayim. Ayim was one of the founders of the Black German Movement, and her research on the…
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Claudia Unterweger – Austria’s first black News presenter Afro-Europe: International Blog 2012-02-18 ©ORF (Ali Schafler) Claudia Unterweger (39) is the first black TV News presenter in Austria. She was born to an African-American father and an Austrian mother. Since February 2011 she is one of the News presenters of “Zib-flash”, a program of the Austrian…
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Nationalism, Racism and Propaganda in Early Weimar Germany: Contradictions in the Campaign against the ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’ German History Volume 30, Issue 1 (March, 2012) pages 45-74 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghr124 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington During the early 1920s, an average of 25,000 colonial soldiers from North Africa, Senegal and…
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The Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal Current Anthropology Volume 53, Number S5, April 2012 13 pages Gonçalo Santos, Senior Research Fellow Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung In this article I analyze the emergence of the field of physical anthropology in the metropolitan academic sphere of the Portuguese Empire during the late nineteenth century.…
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My Eyes Only Look Out Brandon Books October 2001 236 pages ISBN: 9780863222849 Margaret McCarthy Irish people describe the realities of being of mixed race in a mostly white society In the first book of its kind, Irish people describe, in a series of compelling interviews, the realities of being of mixed race in a…
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Mixed-race Rose contestant snubs racist websites Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland 2008-08-03 Ken Sweeney A mixed-race contestant who is competing in this year’s Rose of Tralee says she has no fears about travelling to Ireland to take part in the contest despite a series of racist remarks made against her on a website. London Rose Belinda…
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Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In University of British Columbia Press 2011-10-11 308 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780774820813 Edited by: Avigail Eisenberg, Professor of Political Science University of Victoria Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Queen’s University In an age of multiculturalism and identity politics, many minority groups seek some…