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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Race, revolution and interracial relations: Revisiting rapper Emicida’s video ‘Boa Esperança’, the most courageous video of 2015 Black Women of Brazil 2016-04-25 Note from BW of Brazil: Get ready! Today’s piece is one of those long articles in which you must read every word in order to get the full significance. The rapper known as…
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The Calumet Roundtable: A Discussion with Samantha Joyce The Calumet Roundtable 2016-04-07 Lee Artz, Host and Professor of Communication Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana Samantha Joyce, Professor of Mass Communication Indiana University, South Bend In this episode of “The Calumet Roundtable,” host Dr. Lee Artz, Professor of Communication at Purdue University Calumet, and guest Dr.…
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“A Escrava Isaura,” the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimarães, was one of a number of late 19th century works of fiction in Brazil that focused on abolitionism.
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Poetry Betrays Whiteness Harriet: A Poetry Blog Poetry Foundation 2016-04-12 Lucas de Lima (Introduction by Daniel Borzutzky) Among the many pointed questions that Lucas de Lima raises in “Poetry Betrays Whiteness” is that of how positions of unitedstatesian privilege can be used “to fight structural inequality and global anti-blackness.” This far-reaching essay touches upon, among…
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How Soccer Helped Brazil Embrace Its Racial Diversity Zócalo Public Square KCRW Santa Monica, California 2016-04-06 Joshua Nadel, Associate Professor of History North Carolina Central University Brazil—as two recent book titles point out, and almost any kid kicking a ball anywhere in the world can tell you—is the country of soccer. While the modern sport’s…
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Whiteness and Miscegenation: Ethnographic Notes, Social Classifications and Silences in the Brazilian Context Studi Culturali Volume VII, Number 1, April 2010 pages 87-102 DOI: 10.1405/31883 Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia This article presents some reflections from ongoing research on white upper-middle class men…
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“Whitening” and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian “Rainbow Nation” The Postcolonialist 2014-03-04 Sarah Lempp To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its “discovery” by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a “rainbow nation” without discrimination or racism; a place where people from various ethnicities live peacefully together. That…
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Afro-Latin America State University of New York, Albany Summer 2016 Course Info: ALCS 203 Luis Paredes Analysis of blackness in Latin America with a focus on the representations of peoples of African descent in national identities and discourses. The course examines some of the “myths of foundation” of Latin American nations (e.g. The “cosmic race”…
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black girls rule: celebrating brazilian women of colour i-D 2016-03-08 Hattie Collins Weudson Ribeiro’s new photobook Black Girl Power is shining a light on black female identity and LGBT women of colour in brazil. Brasilia based photographer, journalist and political scientist Weudson Ribeiro is known for his images celebrating Brazilian queer culture. In his latest…