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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Creoles and Melungeons: More Important Than Ever to America Melungeon Heritage Association: One People, All Colors 2014-08-22 Nick Douglas The unique origins of Creoles and Melungeons parallel and complement each other. Their genesis is a uniquely American phenomenon. Creoles, like Melungeons, are a race of black, white and Native American people. Most Creoles and Melungeons…
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I am not Pocahontas The Weeklings (also in Salon) 2014-09-04 Elissa Washuta AS A COWLITZ Indian child, white-skinned and New Jersey-born, I grew up fielding the question, “How much Indian are you?” without any sense of its meaning. Once I was old enough to know that my mother was Indian and my father wasn’t, I began…
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Michele Norris to visit MSU Sept. 15 Michigan State University Today 2014-09-03 Award-winning journalist and National Public Radio contributor Michele Norris will visit MSU Sept. 15 to speak about her best-selling memoir, “The Grace of Silence,” one of the three selections in this year’s One Book, One Community program. This year’s OBOC program is coordinated…
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Mothly Guest Author: Araújo, Emanoel GAM – Global Art and the Museum Karlsruhe, Germany March 2009 This month it is a great pleasure for us to present as our fifth guest author Emanoel Araújo, founder of the Museu AfroBrasil, who was interviewed by Hans Belting on the occasion of the first GAM Platform in São…
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How the slave trade shaped the Baroque The Art Newspaper Focus, Issue 260, September 2014 Emanoel Araujo, Founder, Head Curator and Director Museu AfroBrasil, São Paulo, Brazil As Catholicism spread across the colonies, slaves and freedmen created a uniquely Brazilian style The Baroque movement that spread across the Portuguese and Spanish colonies has been important…
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Belle: A Film That Defied Expectations The Root 2014-08-24 Julie Walker The film’s star and director talked to The Root about how an inspirational character helped shaped the movie, which is now out on DVD. Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who stars in the movie Belle—now out on DVD—grew up in England watching Jane Austen films but…
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How Racism Creeps Into Medicine The Atlantic 2014-08-29 Hamza Shaban Washington, D.C. The history of a medical instrument reveals the dubious science of racial difference. In 1864, the year before the Civil War ended, a massive study was launched to quantify the bodies of Union soldiers. One key finding in what would become a 613-page…
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The United States of the United Races: a rejoinder Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1857-1861 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932414 Greg Carter, Associate Professor of History University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee I respond to a review by C. Matthew Snipp, revisiting how my book connects abolitionist leanings…
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Utopian visions of racial admixture Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1847-1851 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.932409 C. Matthew Snipp, Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Sociology Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Carter, Greg, The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of…