Mixed Race Studies

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  • Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture

    Scholar Saw a Multicolored American Culture The New York Times 2013-08-19 Mel Watkins Albert Murray Dies at 97; Fought Black Separatism Albert Murray, an essayist, critic and novelist who influenced the national discussion about race by challenging black separatism, insisting that the black experience was essential to American culture and inextricably tied to it, died…

  • Two Cities: Guangzhou/Lagos

    Two Cities: Guangzhou/Lagos Nokoko Institute of African Studies Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Volume 2 (Fall 2011) pages 174-197 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Assistant Professor of African American Studies San José State University, San Jose, California I was in Nigeria in May, the year I turned twenty-nine. And aside from the few hours of electricity per day,…

  • Two worlds… One reflection

    Two worlds… One reflection IDEATE: The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex, Colchester, England Volume 10, Summer 2013 19 pages Yasmin Currid Introduction I went through most of my childhood believing that my family was just the same as everybody else’s. I did not realise that there was something slightly different about the dynamics…

  • CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium

    CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies University of Leeds 2013-08-08 Peter Edwards, Faculty Web Development Officer Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) held its first interdisciplinary, international postgraduate symposium on the 18th May 2013 entitled…

  • What Do I Tell My Blond Son About Being Black?

    What Do I Tell My Blond Son About Being Black? Gawker 2013-08-17 Anita DeRouen, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing and Teaching Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi “I think we should teach him to use his privilege to his advantage.” It’s Sunday morning, July 14, 2013. My husband and I are talking, have been…

  • About Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C.

    About Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. 2013-06-18 Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York The idea for this blog came from several discussions with students and young people who come from mixed-race backgrounds, especially so-called “white and black”…

  • A Realidade da Ficção: Ambiguidades Literárias e Sociais em ‘O Mulato’ de Aluísio Azevedo (The Reality of Fiction: Literary and social ambiguities in “The Mulatto” by Aluísio Azevedo)

    The synthesis of this work Estramanho Rodrigo de Almeida should be added the happy choice (as it should be) an epigraph taken from the work of Dercy Ribeiro: “Tour between the two conflicting worlds – that of the black, which he rejects, and white, the rejects – the mulatto humanizes the drama to be two,…

  • Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic

    Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the São Paulo Research Foundation 2013-06-12 José Tadeu Arantes Sexual discipline and whitening of the population were the guidelines of the conservative modernization promoted by the elite, affirms study Agência FAPESP – Masculinity and whiteness were the ideals of the…

  • Still policing the crisis? Black and black and white mixed ‘race’ [Seeking Interviewees]

    Still policing the crisis? Black and black and white mixed ‘race’ Seeking Interviewees] University of Leeds Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 2013-08-12 Lisa J. Long, Doctoral Researcher School of Sociology and Social Policy I am a Ph.D. Researcher at the University of Leeds. I am interested in understanding the experiences that black or black and white…

  • After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

    An investigation of the concept of “race” in post-Nazi Germany