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: History
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US Census: Rationalizing Race in US History Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society, Othmer Library Brooklyn, New York 2013-04-18, 19:00-21:00 EDT (Local Time) View the full video of the event here. What boxes do you mark on the U.S. Census to describe your heritage? Prior to the year 2000, multiracial people could only check…
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Who Was the 1st Black Duke? The Root 2013-05-13 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University Porträt des Alessandro de Medici by Pontormo, 1534-1535 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Meet the scion of a legendary Italian dynasty. Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of…
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Arthur Wharton: The first Black Footballer BBC Tyne Culture October 2003 BBC Over 100 years before Dyer, Jenas and Ameobi, the North East had the UK’s first professional black League player. Meet the legendary Arthur Wharton. Arthur Wharton was born on 28 October 1865 in Accra, formerly the Gold Coast, now capital of Ghana, West…
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Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico (HI972) University of Warwick Coventry, England Spring 2013 Rebecca Earle, Professor of History This module explores the distinctive vision of colonial Mexico purveyed via the artistic genre known as the casta painting. Casta paintings depict the outcomes of different types of inter-ethnic mixing, and often come…
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The Art of Conversation: Eighteenth-Century Mexican Casta Painting SHIFT: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture Issue 5, 2012 25 pages Mey-Yen Moriuchi Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Traditionally, casta paintings have been interpreted as an isolated colonial Mexican art form and examined within the social historical moment in which they emerged. Casta paintings…
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Blacks in Colonial Spanish Texas Texas State Historical Association: A Digital Gateway to Texas History 2013 Jesús F. de la Teja, Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies and Regents’ Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos From the initial encounters between the Old and New Worlds following Christopher Columbus’s voyages…
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Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library Libraries & the Cultural Record Volume 42, Number 4, 2007 pages 409-421 DOI: 10.1353/lac.2007.0068 Ethelene Whitmire, Associate Professor of Library & Information Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison Chicago native Regina Anderson Andrews (1901–93) was a librarian in the New York Public Library (NYPL)…
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Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan [Presentation] German Institute for Japanese Studies (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien) Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F 7-1 Kioicho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan Wednesday, 2013-06-12, 18:30 JST (Local Time) Leslie Helm, Seattle Business Magazine The DIJ Social Science Study Group is a forum for young scholars and Ph.D.…
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A Conversation with Lawrence Hill Callaloo Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2013 pages 5-26 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0072 Winfried Siemerling, Professor of English University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada When Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic offered an alternative account of modernity that placed transnational, black transatlantic lives and cultures at the center, Canada was not on his…
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The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. [Book Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 27, Number 3 (Summer 1981) W. Michael Mathes (1936-2012), Professor of History University of San Francisco The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico. By Colin M. MacLachlan and Jaime E. Rodríguez…