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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But it was Green’s last point, mentioned almost as an aside – “And of course, Steph is light-skinned so [players] want to make him out to be soft” – that got the most attention.
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Youth and Empire: Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia by David Pomfret (review) The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2017 pages 271-273 Molly J. Giblin, Instructor University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee Youth and Empire: Trans-Colonial Childhoods in British and French Asia. By David Pomfret. Stanford, CA:…
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This is the first study of its kind to provide such a broadly comparative and in-depth analysis of children and empire.
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During the long eighteenth century, elite free people of color in Jamaica petitioned the government for exemptions to some of the island’s laws against those with African ancestry. In making these appeals, they highlighted advanced social and financial positions that put them above the average Jamaican of color.
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Editor’s Note: In the inaugural edition of our Weekend Reading series, journalist David Pastor reviews new work on the legendary black scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg that helps reinstate his Puerto Rican identity.
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Virginia Matsuoka was 10 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
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However, hidden from these historical bonds lies a complex weave of direct blood descendants, of abandoned children sired by some members of the US Military during their service at the US bases in the Philippines, a large legion of fatherless men and women who possess multi-ethnicity looks born to single mothers, remains in search of…
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Anita Hemmings was Vassar College’s first African American graduate. But no one was supposed to know that she was black.
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What is the role of an artist in the face of political repression? What is the place of culture in the midst of injustice and terror? Haitian writer Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973), author of powerful novels representing the experience of living under the Duvalier dictatorship, confronted such questions throughout her life.