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: Brazil
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Book Reviews: Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist [Geiger Review] Comparative Civilizations Review Volume 75, Number 75, Fall 2016 Article 11 pages 125-126 Pedro Geiger G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2012 The long and excellent book by Reginald…
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THE CREATION OF The Intercept, and then the Intercept Brasil, was motivated by a core purpose: to provide crucial journalism and commentary that, for whatever reasons, is not being adequately provided to the public. We are especially thrilled to announce the arrival of Ana Maria Gonçalves as our new columnist because her work so powerfully…
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Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color/race in Brazil BioSocieties March 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1 pages 48–69 DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2014.21 Ricardo Ventura Santos Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/ FIOCRUZ & Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gláucia Oliveira da Silva Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil Sahra Gibbon, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University…
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What is the Black Atlantic? My Comparative Perspective Afro-Europe International Blog 2011-01-09 Sibo Kano Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic (1994) is a difficult read but it’s a very influential book. An author who builds further on Gilroy’s work and who writes very accessible books about blackness is Livio Sansone (professor of anthropology at the University of…
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Patrick Wolfe: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race New Books Network 2016-11-07 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, “a structure, not an event.”…
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Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race Verso Books January 2016 306 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781781689172 Hardback ISBN: 9781781689165 Ebook ISBN: 9781781689196 Patrick Wolfe Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose…
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Blackness, Science, and Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Luso-Brazilian World and the United States The Eighteenth Century Volume 57, Number 3, Fall 2016 pages 303-324 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2016.0020 Bruno Carvalho, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Princeton University It has become increasingly common for scholars to locate the eighteenth century as a turning point in…
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Whitening, Mixing, Darkening, and Developing: Everything but Indigenous Latin American Research Review Volume 51, Number 3, 2016 pages 142-160 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2016.0038 Juliana Luna Freire, Assistant Professor of Spanish/Portuguese Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts This article analyzes the image of Brazilian Indigenous minority groups as a figurehead in media discourse, which is based on racializing logics…
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Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race Oxford University Press 2016-10-31 376 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780190625696 Edited by: H. Samy Alim, Professor of Education; Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics (by courtesy) Stanford University John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities Stanford University Arnetha F. Ball,…