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: Religion
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A rich history of wanderers, exiles and intruders. A haunting personal journey through Central Asia. An intimate reflection on mixed identity shaped by cultural crossings.
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Once I began my research in the synagogue in Salvador, Brazil, I met men and women of color who considered themselves Jewish, even when the rabbi and other congregants did not. I was especially interested in the stories of the Jewish women of color I met. Their passion for Judaism, desire to raise their children…
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Nabil Ayers’ memoir reflects on family, identity and his journey to connect with a Black father who was ‘really just DNA’
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“Sovereign Joy” explores the performance of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640.
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The Importance of Being Turbaned The Antioch Review Volume 69, Number 2, Spring 2011 pages 208-221 Paul A. Kramer, Associate Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee This narrative piece, selected by The Best American Essays 2012 as a “notable essay,” tells the story of Rev. Jesse Routté, an African American Lutheran minister in New…
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Scholars, poets, writers, composers… a new book focuses on the wide influence of Africa abroad, writes Angela Cobbinah
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African Europeans: An Untold History Basic Books 2021-05-04 304 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781541619678 eBook ISBN-13: 9781541619937 Audiobook Downloadable ISBN-13: 9781549136627 Olivette Otele, Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of Enslavement University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian…
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New History Finally Recognizes Afro-Creole Spiritualists Religion Dispatches 2016-09-20 Paul Harvey, Distinguished Professor of History University of Colorado “Ladder of Progress,” a drawing added to the archive of the Cercle Harmonique by René Grandjean, the circle’s first archivist. Emily Clark’s new work, A Luminous Brotherhood, is an extensive study of a subject that has weirdly…
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A New Book for Those Who Cling to a “Post-Racial” Christianity Religion Dispatches 2017-02-17 In The Death of Race, Brian Bantum explores the theological underpinnings of cultural understandings of race and gender. What inspired you to write The Death of Race? Truthfully, this wasn’t the book I had wanted to write right now. There is…
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For years, people have asked Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum to reveal the secret to their marriage as a multiracial Christian couple, each with a high-profile ministry calling. This book reveals the lessons, mistakes, and principles that have helped the Bantums navigate race, family history, and gender dynamics in their twenty-plus years of marriage,…