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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When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. 1987 300 pages 220 x 140cm Hardback ISBN: 9781850430391 Graham Smith An important chapter in the history of World War II is here explored for the first-time—how the arrival of the black troops strained war-time…
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Empathetic eye Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Fábio de Castro Agência FAPESP – In 1865, an expedition led by Swiss natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) of Harvard University travelled around Brazil for 15 months to study the country. Among the voluntary collectors that participated in the expedition was a…
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Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2012-07-25 Elton Alisson USP historian Shozo Motoyama makes the above assertion in a study on the first stage of Japanese immigration to Brazil, which covers the process of cultural integration Agência FAPESP – Japanese…
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Frizzly Studies: Negotiating the Invisible Lines of Race Common Knowledge Volume 19, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 518-529 DOI: 10.1215/0961754X-2281810 Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Beginning with the assumption that race is a conceptual blur, this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” argues that race conflates what is plain to…
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Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story Regina Griffin Films, Inc. 2011 102 minutes color United States Regina Griffin, Director Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story reveals the tragic lives of biracial, bicultural children, unwanted, ignored and forgotten by enemy nations. Imagine being born in a place and time where racism and hatred run rampant, and your mother…
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A Tale of Two Seminole Counties Indian Voices August 2013 page 7 Phil Fixico Some coincidences can’t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both Florida’s and Oklahoma’s Seminole Counties. What does this date and these counties have in common. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born…
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Tells the story, through analysis and oral history, of a nearly forgotten minority under Hitler’s regime