Mixed Race Studies

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  • ‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census

    ‘The Beautiful Faces of my Black People’: race, ethnicity and the politics of Colombia’s 2005 census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, 2013 – Issue 10: Rethinking Race, Racism, Identity, and Ideology in Latin America Pages 1544-1563 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.791398 Tianna S. Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley The recent multicultural…

  • Are Brazilians Latinos? What their identity struggle tells us about race in America

    In the United States, all three are closely associated with the word “Brazilian.” Yet, although none of these things are linked to Latino identity, one of the questions that journalists frequently ask me is, “Are Brazilians Latinos?”

  • Avoiding the One-Drop Rule

    Avoiding the One-Drop Rule The Harvard Advocate Fall 2016 Eli Lee This past January, I attended a concert at Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church. The audience in the church’s dimly lit basement was tattooed, bedecked in social justice slogans and, like most punk show crowds, predominantly white. Two hours into the show, a local hardcore band…

  • Word of Honour: Reclaiming Mandela’s Promise

    Word of Honour: Reclaiming Mandela’s Promise Chace Studios South Africa 2016 Color Running Time: 01:13:00 Kiersten Dunbar Chace, Producer, Director, Editor David Grant, Consultant/Writer In 1997, just prior to his departure from politics, President Nelson Mandela delivered an informal speech to a predominately mixed-race Coloured community in the Western Cape. He reassured them they had nothing…

  • Afro-Latinos: a vision of Houston’s mixed-race future

    Afro-Latinos: a vision of Houston’s mixed-race future The Houtson Chronicle Houston, Texas 2016-11-19 Olivia P. Tallet, Reporter Afro-Latinos embody Texas’ mixed-race future It happens all the time. At the taco truck, Raul Orlando Edwards placed his fajita order: “Señorita, por favor, póngale la cebolla bien cocida” (“I’d like the onions well-done.”) “Man,” said the African-American…

  • We are not “belligerent,” “dark” or “bitter”

    We are not “belligerent,” “dark” or “bitter” Media Diversified 2016-11-29 Tele Ogunyemi, Co-founder Diaspora Philes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s recent article ‘Blend it like Britain’ is a masterpiece in how to simultaneously erase and fetishize people of colour. Published on 6th November 2016 in the Sunday Times Magazine to promote Amma Asante’s new film ‘A United Kingdom’, the…

  • Blend it like Britain

    Blend it like Britain The Sunday Times The Times of London 2016-11-06 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown United colours: one in 10 people in this country are in a mixed relationship MORDECHAI MEIRI An acclaimed new movie, A United Kingdom, is set to shine a spotlight on mixed-race relationships — and how British women changed society’s attitude towards…

  • For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With Some Exceptions

    For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With Some Exceptions The New York Times 2016-11-26 Brooke Lea Foster When I was a new mother living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 2010, I often forgot that my infant son, Harper, didn’t look like me. As I pushed him around the neighborhood, I thought of him…

  • The Latinos Of Asia

    The Latinos Of Asia Think KERA Dallas, Texas 2016-11-14 Krys Boyd, Host and Managing Editor Filipino Americans are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian. But because of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, many Filipinos also feel part Latino. This hour, we’ll talk about how skin color, history and other factors contribute to cultural identity…

  • Reclaiming heritage in modern America

    Reclaiming heritage in modern America Somona State Star Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 2016-11-08 Jahred Nunes, Staff Writer Virginia natives Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were sentenced to a year in state prison after being married in the spring of 1958. The couple was arrested in their bedroom,…