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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Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century University of Pennsylvania Press 2014 280 pages 6 x 9 12 illus. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4609-4 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0970-9 Iris Idelson-Shein, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow Martin Buber Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main European Jews, argues Iris Idelson-Shein,…
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“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White” is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver.
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Why some Muslims don’t want Ahmed Mohamed’s blackness to be ignored The Washington Post 2015-09-17 Abby Phillip, General Assignment Reporter Ahmed Mohamed is now a 14-year-old with a national following and a long list of powerful people on his calling card. After he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school to impress his…
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In Memoriam: Tony Gleaton The afrolatin@ forum 2015-09-01 Tony Gleaton, among the first photographers to document Latin Americans of African descent, passed away last week. He leaves behind an impressive body of work which undoubtedly contributed to the growing Black consciousness movement throughout the Americas. Tony began his Latin American photographic journey in the southern…
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A Company of Authors: Allyson Hobbs Stanford University 2015-09-18 Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs discusses the inspiration for her award-winning book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” She spoke at the 12th Annual “A Company of Authors” event held at the Stanford Humanities Center on April 25, 2015.
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“Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production” analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders.