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 Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban and Afro-Cuban identities.
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Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Fulcrum Publishing May 2014 176 pages 8 X 10 Paperback ISBN: 9781938486296 Joel Christian Gill Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles…
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Essence Fest: How Prince helped Misty Copeland discover artistic freedom The New Orleans Times-Picayune 2016-07-02 Chelsea Brasted, Lifestyle and Culture Reporter Misty Copeland recounted her own Prince tribute Saturday (July 2) during an Essence Fest weekend full of them. But for the first African American woman to be named principal dancer at the American Ballet…
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Becoming Black, White, and Indian in Wisconsin Farm Country, 1850s–1910s Middle West Review Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2016 pages 53-84 DOI: 10.1353/mwr.2016.0009 Jennifer Kirsten Stinson, Associate Professor of History Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, Michigan Fig 1. Location of the Revels kindred community in Forest Township, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Map courtesy of the…
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Calidad, Genealogy, and Disputed Free-colored Tributary Status in New Spain The Americas Volume 73, Number 2, April 2016 pages 139-170 Norah Andrews, Assistant Professor of World History Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey In 1787, a group of Indians from the town of Almoloya, part of Apan in the Intendancy of Mexico, aired their grievances…
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Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture by Jennifer Ann Ho (review) American Studies Volume 55, Number 1, 2016 pages 165-166 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2016.006 Jeehyun Lim, Assistant Professor of English Denison University, Granville, Ohio Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture. By Jennifer Ann Ho. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2015. Jennifer Ho’s Racial Ambiguity in Asian…
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The iconic Egyptian writer speaks out about being ignored by “colonial capitalist patriarchal powers” and how today’s African women writers are leading a revolt.
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Chi-chi Nwanoku: A classical legacy and an African heritage Music Africa Magazine 2016-06-16 Ed Keazor A short biography of Chi-chi Nwanoku MBE, world-renowned classical baroque bassist and Professor of Music, covering her life, influences and deep connections to her African roots. Dr Michael Nwanoku adjusted himself in his seat as the next announcement was about…
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“Free State of Jones” is the film Reconstruction historians have been waiting for. Reconstruction, which encompassed the decade following the Civil War, is perhaps the most overlooked era in American history. It is the only period that doesn’t have a National Park Service site commemorating it.