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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My students are always surprised to learn that there were and are a community of African immigrants and Afro-Germans that dates back to the nineteenth century (and sometimes earlier), and that this community has at times had an influence on German culture, society, and racial thinking that belied its small size.
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“Casta” is inspired by a series of casta paintings by Miguel Cabrera, a mixed-race painter from Oaxaca. Casta paintings were a unique form of portraiture that organized racial mixtures of the New World according to a hierarchy defined by Spanish elites. How do Old World anxieties about ambiguous racial identity reflect contemporary biases?
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It’s part of the long history of erasing people of mixed heritage.
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Western Michigan University History Professor Mitch Kachun says his book is about Crispus Attucks, one of the men, killed at the Boston Massacre in 1770. But he says “First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory” also raises questions about who’s included in history, and who is ignored.
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But Markle, whose mother is black and whose father is white, may not be the first mixed-race royal.
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“First Martyr of Liberty” explores how Crispus Attucks’s death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans’ struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative.
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Uncovering the forgotten history of anti-Chinese propaganda and violence documented in the years around the revolution, the book reads like a dossier of state secrets.
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The politics of racial difference amid the tumult of modern Mexican history
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Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897 University of California Press December 1995 365 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520203433 Robert M. Levine (1941-2003), Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies University of Miami The massacre of Canudos In 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the…
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One in Twelve Mary Frances Berry 2014-12-25 Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History University of Pennsylvania When I read in the New Orleans Times Picayune that about 12 percent of Louisiana residents who identify themselves as white have at least 1 percent African ancestry, or one…