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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What happened to black Germans under the Nazis? The Conversation (US Pilot): Academic rigor, journalistic flair 2016-01-26 Eve Rosenhaft, Professor of German Historical Studies University of Liverpool The fact that we officially commemorate the Holocaust on January 27, the date of the liberation of Auschwitz, means that remembrance of Nazi crimes focuses on the systematic mass…
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Daniel Lind Ramos and the Visual Politics of Race in Puerto Rican Art Theory and Critique of Art in the Caribbean 2015-11-11 Fabienne Viala, Associate Professor; Director of the Year Abroad; Director of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies School of Modern Languages and Cultures University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom This article discusses…
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The Relationship of Identity to the Organizational Development of FLECHAS: Perceptions of Race from a Puerto Rican Perspective The Forensic Examiner June 2015 Raul A. Avila The Puerto Rican preoccupation with “whitening” and incidents of black racism obfuscate Puerto Rican identity. The “deliberate amnesia” regarding their genetic and cultural connection with Black African slaves compels…
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Father Healy’s Imprint: Past, Present and Future The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2004-11-09 Moises Mendoza Every day thousands of students pass by Healy Hall and marvel at its towering steeples and complex intricacies. Few of them realize that the man responsible for this Georgetown trademark was every bit as complex and dynamic as the…
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QUALLEN: Healy’s Inner Turmoil, Our Current Conflict The Hoya Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 2015-11-20 Matthew Quallen, “Hoya Historian” School of Foreign Service Last week, President DeGioia accepted a recommendation to scrub the names Mulledy and McSherry from university buildings. The names Freedom and Remembrance took their places. Mulledy and McSherry symbolized what was most odious…
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A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life (Race & Difference Colloquium Series) Emory University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia 30322 Monday, 2016-02-15, 12:00-13:30 EST (Local Time) Presented by: James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History…
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Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica African American Intellectual History Society 2015-10-12 Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History Michigan State University Pierre Eugène du Simitière, ca. 1757-1774 One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came upon a black man…
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Her Father’s People Stanford Magazine July/August 2009 Erin Aubry Kaplan Antonin Kratochvil WEDDED IDEALISM: Danzy Senna was the middle child born to Fanny Howe and Carl Senna. For years, Danzy Senna thoughtfully explored issues of race and identity in fiction, including her novels Caucasia and Symptomatic. And then one day the author, walking through Harvard…