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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Envisioning the United States in the Latin American myth of ‘racial democracy mestizaje’ Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online 2016-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2016.1170953 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Transnational comparison is relevant both to how racial hierarchy is obscured and elucidated. This Essay traces how…
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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians University of North Carolina Press September 2015 270 pages 8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2443-3 Angela Pulley Hudson, Associate Professor of History Texas A&M University In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed…
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New Generation Thinkers: The Moor of Florence – A Medici Mystery Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 2015-11-09 2015 Festival, The Free Thinking Essay For over 400 years it’s been claimed that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race, his mother a slave of African descent. Catherine Fletcher of Swansea University asks if this…
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Mexican-Punjabis relation through dance NewsGram 2016-04-17 Megha Sharma the performance held on 10th and 11th april credits: kalw.org Mexican-Punjabi is a vanishing tribe The United States had always been an open land to possibilities. It is visited by a huge number of immigrants every year. California which is not only a land of renowned universities,…
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Perception and the Mulatto Body in Inquisitorial Spain: A Neurohistory* Past and Present First published online: 2016-04-16 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtw001 Cristian Berco, Associate Professor of History Bishop’s University, Quebec On 1 July 1625, their hands issuing from Dominican cloaks as black as night, inquisitors in Madrid voted to arrest Luisa Nuñez on suspicion of practising love…
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“A Escrava Isaura,” the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimarães, was one of a number of late 19th century works of fiction in Brazil that focused on abolitionism.
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Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…