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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The ideology of racial democracy cast a long shadow over twentieth-century race relations in Brazil. First popularized by influential Brazilian scholar Gilberto Freyre, this theory presumed a level racial playing field that was paradoxically dependent on the whitening of the populace. Rather than helping to drive the country toward a multiracial future, racial democracy shrouded…
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As the proudly mixed-race country grapples with its legacy of slavery, affirmative-action race tribunals are measuring skull shape and nose width to determine who counts as disadvantaged.
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Discourses of Citizenship in American and Brazilian Affirmative Action Court Decisions American Journal of Comparative Law Volume 64, Number 2, (Summer 2016) pages 455-504 DOI: 10.5131/AJCL.2016.0015 Adilson José Moreira Harvard University; Mackenzie Presbyterian University American and Brazilian courts are traveling quite different paths regarding the question of racial justice. Race neutrality has become an influential…