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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Category: Media Archive
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You belong to the cultural communities of both your mother and your father.
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Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy [Smith Review] The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research Volume 50, (Winter 2020) – Issue 4: Black Girlhood pages 86-88 DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2020.1811610 Justin Smith, Ph.D. candidate in English and African American Pennsylvania State University Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and…
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The presence of Afro-Argentines had a significant and irrefutable effect on Argentine culture, although their origins have been for the most part erased. For instance, tango— ironically one of Argentina’s most well-known cultural contributions around the world— was a direct result of African influence.
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Millions of people living on the islands today inherited genes from the people who made them home before Europeans arrived.
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Genetic continuity across transitions in pottery styles reveals that cultural changes during the Ceramic Age were not driven by migration of genetically differentiated groups from the mainland, but instead reflected interactions within an interconnected Caribbean world.
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Brit Bennett – Colorism & Racial Passing in “The Vanishing Half” | The Daily Social Distancing Show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah 2020-12-03 Brit Bennett talks about exploring the effects of colorism in Black communities and the ability to pass as white in her new novel “The Vanishing Half.” Watch the interview here.
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In “Relative Races,” Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is ascribed.
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In three segments, we’re going to have a conversation about how Afro-Latinx folks often get left out of national discussions about Blackness and, in particular, the Black Lives Matter movement.