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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The Culture of Curls: What Hair Really Means in Mixed Race Societies The Yale Globalist 2013-12-24 Isidora Stankovic Timothy Dwight College Yale University Look through any fashion magazine and you might notice something puzzling. Almost without exception, models of every race have the same sleek, straightened hair. The message from these media sources seems clear:…
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“A Spirit that Nursed a Grievance:” William Plomer’s “The Child of Queen Victoria” English in Africa Volume 39, Number 2 (2012) DOI: 10.4314/eia.v39i2.7 M Shum When William Plomer’s The Child of Queen Victoria and Other Stories was published by Jonathan Cape in 1933, his literary reputation was well established: he was the author of two…
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Why mixed-race comic was ‘born a crime’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-12-04 Jessica Ellis Teo Kermeliotis London (CNN) — When it comes to getting ready for a show, fast-rising South African comedian Trevor Noah has it all figured out. “My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage and straight onto the stage,” says…
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Commercial music radio, race and identity in South Africa Media Culture & Society Volume 36, Number 7 (October 2014) pages 901-915 DOI: 10.1177/0163443714536076 Tanja Estella Bosch University of Cape Town, South Africa In South Africa, listeners often believe that radio stations deliberately constitute their audiences in terms of race. This article further explores this notion…
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This is my story (Part 1) briankamanzi 2014-03-14 Brian Kamanzi My name is Brian, in 1990 I was born to a South African Indian mother and a Ugandan father in Mthatha, a small city located in the hilly region of what is still often referred to as the Transkei in the heart of the Eastern…