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 author presents a comparative analysis of the histories of racial/color categorization in American and Brazilian censuses and shows that racial (and color) categories have appeared in these censuses because of shifting ideas about race and the enduring power of these ideas as organizers of political, economic, and social life in both countries.
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The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the ‘Community of Race’ and the Category of Indigène in New Caledonia, 1887–1946 The Journal of Pacific History Published online: 2012-06-29 pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2012.688183 Adrian Muckle, Lecturer in History Victoria University of Wellington From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indigénat provided French administrators in…
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The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the ‘Domiciled Community’ in British India 1858-1930 Oxford University Press January 2012 288 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199697700; ISBN10: 0199697701 Satoshi Mizutani From 1858 to 1930 the concept of whiteness in British India was complex and contradictory. Under the Raj, the spread of racial ideologies was pervasive, but whiteness…
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Frantz Fanon’s reception in Brazil Penser aujourd’hui à partir de Frantz Fanon, Actes du colloque Fanon (Symposium on Frantz Fanon) Université Paris 7 February 2008 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Frantz Fanon is a central figure in cultural, post-colonial and African-American studies, whether in the United States, Africa…
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For Daughters of the American Revolution, a New Chapter The New York Times 2012-07-03 Sarah Maslin Nir Olivia Cousins can trace her family in the United States to a soldier who joined the rebelling colonists when he was just 17. But when a friend suggested she join the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization…