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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An Earth-Colored Sea: ‘Race’, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World Berghahn Books 2003 176 pages index Hardback ISBN: 978-1-57181-607-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57181-608-5 Miguel Vale de Almeida, Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years,…
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Brazilians of African descent demand equality Al Jazeera English 2013-07-02 Rachel Levin “Brazil is one of the most socially unequal countries in the world, we’re selling the image that everything is good and we’ll host the World Cup but it’s a country that denies opportunity to its own people.” —Lais Nascimento, student Eighty percent of…
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Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2011 pages 203–219 DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x Mieke Schrooten Anthropology Department Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses…
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Community Profiles – Melissa Nobles MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Great Ideas Change the World 2013-04-21 Leda Zimmerman “All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” says Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and ethnic injustice, Nobles has developed a…
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Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil Flow Volume 17 (2012-12-18) Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan In this three part series of essays I will consider some of the aspects of race and visuality in Brazil. This article will lay out…