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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Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 5, Number 2 (October, 1994) pages 243-266 Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign One of the most important insights developed in the fields of lesbian and gay history and the history of sexuality has been the notion…
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De Blasio Responds to Lhota’s Doomsday Ad With a Cheery One Politicker 2013-10-17 Colin Campbell Tale of Two Ads A day after Joe Lhota released an ad warning of apocalyptic results if rival Bill de Blasio is elected mayor–complete with photos of race riots and corpses–Mr. de Blasio is out with a new spot of…
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Blow to multiple human species idea BBC News 2013-10-17 Melissa Hogenboom, Science Reporter The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow. Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species. Writing in…
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An Essentially American Narrative The New York Times 2013-10-11 Nelson George A Discussion of Steve McQueen’s Film ‘12 Years a Slave’ Amid comic book epics, bromantic comedies and sequels of sequels, films about America’s tortured racial history have recently emerged as a surprisingly lucrative Hollywood staple. In the last two years, “The Help,” “Lincoln,””Django Unchained,””42”…
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Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea [new edition] Constable & Robinson 2006-11-16 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781845294977 Jane Robinson The ‘Greatest Black Briton in History’ triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent ‘doctress’ combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical…