Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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The new black theology: Retrieving ancient sources to challenge racism The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Jonathan Tran, Assistant Professor of Religion Baylor University, Waco, Texas Read Edward Antonio’s review of Brian Bantum’s Redeeming Mulatto (subscription required) A couple years ago, when the Century asked some leading theologians to name five “essential theology books of the past…
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The Evolution of ‘Portuguese’ Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century The Journal of African History Volume 40, Issue 2 (1999) pages 173-191 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, Portugal established a trading presence along the…
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The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World Cambridge University Press March 2011 278 pages 8 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN:9780521192866 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut José da Silva Horta Universidade de Lisboa This book traces the history of…
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The first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.
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Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks,…
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Sigmund Feist and the End of the Idea of the Jews as a Mixed Race Shpilman Institute for Photography Blog 2011-12-04 Amos Morris Reich, Senior Lecturer of Jewish History University of Haifa Sigmnud Feist (1865-1943) is mostly remembered because of the orphanage for Jewish children that he directed in Berlin, as well as for his…
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Racial, Religious, and Civic Creole Identity in Colonial Spanish America The Journal of American History Volume 17, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 420-437 DOI: 10.1093/alh/aji024 Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History University of Texas, Austin Patrocinio de la Virgen de Guadalupe sobre el Reino de Nueva España (“Auspices of Our Lady of Guadalupe…