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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Challenges to Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Skin Color and Verification at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Florida Volume 14, Issue 1 (Fall 2012) 8 pages Laura Hundersmarck College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida Historically, Brazilian racial identity has been constructed from a color…
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Hist7362: Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University College of London 2013 Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History This course examines race and ethnicity, and processes of racialised and ethnic exclusion, in Latin America in historical perspective. It invites us to consider the historical role played by race and ethnicity…
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LTAM 140 – Topic in Culture and Politics: Being Brazilian: Race, Cannibalization and Animality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse University of California, San Diego Winter 2010 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies This course provides an introduction to Brazilian culture through essays, poetry, fiction, music and films that consider the meaning of…
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LTAM 110 (A00) – Latin American Literature in Translation: “Brazilian Humanimals: Species, Race and Gender in Brazilian Literature” University of California, San Diego Spring 2012 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies How do gender, race and species intersect in Brazilian literary representations? What is at stake in scrutinizing the ethical dimensions…