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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Interracial Families in 18th-Century Mexico The Root 2013-07-23 Unknown artist working in New Spain (Mexico), De español y negra mulata, oil on canvas, 36 by 48 cm (Museo de America, Madrid) Image of the Week: A painting captures the multiethnic population in New Spain, now Mexico. One of the most typical, revealing products of colonial…
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‘Belle’ breaks through the aristocratic color barrier USA Today 2013-07-21 Bryan Alexander British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw used to envy her classmates from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London as they moved on to perform in lavish English period dramas. But as an actress of color, she found it difficult to land such…
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An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World Berghahn Books 2003 176 pages index Hardback ISBN: 978-1-57181-607-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57181-608-5 Miguel Vale de Almeida, Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years,…
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This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.
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Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books 2013-03-19 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky Recently reading Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom got me to wondering if Frankfort had any black…
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Missing faces The Guardian 2007-03-23 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University As the United Kingdom marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade tomorrow, Jackie Kay challenges fellow Scots to acknowledge their forebears’ part in this shameful history and reflects on the ordeal suffered by her ancestors We’re perhaps over-fond…