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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ASTD 693 – Racial Crossings Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missouri Fall 2014 Heidi Ardizzone, Associate Professor of American Studies This course examines race in American history and culture primarily through the lens of racial ambiguities, intersections, and intimacies. With attention to major theoretical frameworks for interpreting racial identity and structures, we examine historical and…
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Blackness, Science, and Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Luso-Brazilian World and the United States The Eighteenth Century Volume 57, Number 3, Fall 2016 pages 303-324 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2016.0020 Bruno Carvalho, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Princeton University It has become increasingly common for scholars to locate the eighteenth century as a turning point in…
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This week, Britain’s ITV showed a programme on Mary Seacole entitled “In the Shadow of Mary Seacole.” In some ways, the programme could have been titled, “Mary Seacole in the Shadow of British Racism.” Many people who initially celebrated the fact that ITV was telling the story of the woman labeled “The Greatest Black Briton”…
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An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage The New Yorker 2016-11-17 David Muto, Copy Editor/Senior Web Producer Bill and Carol Muto on their wedding day, eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down interracial-marriage bans. COURTESY BILL AND CAROL MUTO At my parents’ wedding, in Blacksburg, Virginia, my…
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Black and British by David Olusoga review – reclaiming a lost past The Guardian 2016-11-17 Colin Grant David Olusoga at St Michael’s Church, Burgh-by-Sands. Photograph: Des Willie/BBC/Des Willie Olusoga’s insightful ‘forgotten history’ amounts to much more than a text to accompany a TV series. Yet despite its many attributes, is it too temperate? How do…
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Black and British: A Forgotten History Pan Macmillan 2016-11-03 624 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1447299738 Ebook ISBN: 978-1447299745 Digital Audio ISBN: 978-1509837113 David Olusoga A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of…
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In ‘Loving,’ an American story about a marriage worth fighting for PBS NewsHour 2016-11-15 A new movie, “Loving,” tells the real-life story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a Virginia couple who were arrested because interracial marriage was illegal in their home state. They appealed their case and won a landmark civil rights ruling at the…
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The first systematic study of families in sixteenth century Peru with a transatlantic focus Traces family obligations connecting Peru and Spain through dowries, bequests, legal powers, and letters