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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“I’m Black an’ I’m Proud”: Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visible Culture Issue number 13 (Spring 2009): After Post-Colonialism University of Rochester, New York Charlotte McIvor, Lecturer in Drama National University Ireland, Galway This article examines Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga‘s performance in Neil Jordan’s 2005 Breakfast…
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‘The Nephew’ and ‘The Front Line’: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema Old Ireland, New Irish: ‘The same people living in the same place’: American Conference for Irish Studies 2009 ‘Into the heartland of the ordinary’: Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009 Hosted by Centre for Irish Studies National University of Ireland, Galway…
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The One-Drop Rule in Reverse? Interracial Marriages in Napoleonic and Restoration France Law and History Review Volume 27, Number 3 Fall 2009 University of Illinois Jennifer Heuer, Associate Professor Department of History University of Massachusetts at Amherst In the early nineteenth century, an obscure rural policeman petitioned the French government with an unusual story. Charles…
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Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.