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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“La Negrita,” Queen of the Ticos: The Black Roots of Costa Rica’s Patron Saint The Americas Volume 69, Number 3, January 2013 pages 323-355 DOI: 10.1353/tam.2013.0025 Russell Lohse, Assistant Professor of History Pennsylvania State University In sharp contrast to her mestizo and mulatto neighbors, Costa Rica is one of a handful of Latin American countries…
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The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism Indiana University Press 2007-05-22 320 pages 22 b&w photos 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-21927-5; Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-34902-6 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian…
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Can Drake Save the Bar Mitzvah? The Jewish Week Blog: Well Versed 2012-04-12 Eric Herschthal When Drake’s new video, “HYFR,” dropped [was released] over the weekend—in which the Jewish, biracial hip-hop superstar raps at a bar mitzvah—I was thrilled. Initially. For years, pop culture references to the Jewish rite of passage have been stuck in…
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Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America Cornell University Press 2010-08-05 248 pages 7 Illustrations 6.1 x 9.3 in ISBN-10: 0801446422; ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4642-9 Gwenn A. Miller, Assistant Professor of History College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia’s only overseas…
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In “Redeeming Mulatto,” Bantum reconciles the particular with the transcendent to account for the world as it is: mixed. He constructs a remarkable new Christological vision of Christ as tragic mulatto—one who confronts the contrived delusions of racial purity and the violence of self-assertion and emerges from a “hybridity” of flesh and spirit, human and…
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New Latin American pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio not a person of color? New York Amsterdam News New York, New York 2013-03-21 Courtenay Brown, Special to the AmNews The installation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I on March 13 caused a stir of questions regarding his race. Yes, he was the first pope from…
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Ben-Ur awarded study grant by Hadassah-Brandeis Institute In the Loop: News for Staff and Faculty University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012-12-13 Associate professor Aviva Ben-Ur of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a Senior Grant in History from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for her book project “Eurafrican Identity in a Jewish Society:…