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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“Love Letter to My Ancestors:” Representing Traumatic Memory in Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies Volume 36, Number 2 (December 2014) pages 161-182 Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Associate Professor of English European University Cyprus, Engomi, Nicosia-Cyprus Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter, published in 2008, was first broadcast on BBC radio in…
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WATCH: Jesse Williams of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ on Race Heavy 2014-12-22 Paul Farrell, Breaking News Editor Actor Jesse Williams appears in a viral video that was published on December 17. The Grey’s Anatomy star take aim at racism and double standards in America, including public housing discrimination, specifically in Chicago. The star goes on to discuss…
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Brazil’s hidden slavery past uncovered at Valongo Wharf BBC News 2014-12-24 Julia Carneiro BBC Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro is a city looking to the future. Major development work is underway in the city’s historic port area as it prepares to host the Olympics in 2016. But the construction effort to make all…
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White? Black? A Murky Distinction Grows Still Murkier The New York Times 2014-12-24 Carl Zimmer In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white. The state’s Racial Integrity Act, which barred marriages between whites and people of other races, defined whites as people “whose blood is entirely white, having…
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Chowan Discovery Group, Marvin T. Jones Backintyme.biz Blog Talk Radio 2014-12-20 Stacey Webb, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group Author & Historian Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director & owner of Marvin T. Jones and Associates, specializing in corporate communications photography and photographic design. His love of the community of his birth led…
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English 49, “Whiteness” and Racial Difference Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Spring 1997 Peter Schmidt, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English Literature A look at the conflicted ways in which “racial” identities and differences have been constructed in past and contemporary cultures, especially in the U.S. Topics given emphasis in the syllabus include why saying…
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“The Double Curse of Sex and Color”: Robert Purvis and Human Rights Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 121 [CXXI], Number 1-2, January/April 1997 pages 53-76 Margaret Hope Bacon (1921-2011) In 1869 A NATIONAL WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE convention was held for the first time in Washington, D.C. The Fourteenth Amendment had recently been ratified and the Fifteenth…
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present by Jeffrey Lesser (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 45, Number 3, Winter 2015 pages 449-451 Samuel L. Baily, Professor Emeritus of History Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Jeffrey Lesser, Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present (Cambridge,…
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present Cambridge University Press January 2013 219 pages 19 b/w illus. 1 map 19 tables 229 x 153 x 14 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521193627 Paperback ISBN: 9780521145350 eBook ISBN: 9781139602723 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Immigration, Ethnicity, and…
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In Memoriam: María Elena Martínez-López, 47 University of Southern California News 2014-11-20 Susan Bell, Senior Writer (213) 740-7894 María Elena Martínez-López, associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife and a leading scholar of colonial Latin America has died. She was 47. Martínez-López died at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by…