Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Dissertations
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Performative Aspects of Brazilian Music as a Means of Creating Identity in Rio de Janeiro Universität Wien October 2008 215 pages Adriana Ribeiro-Mayer In Rio de Janeiro’s multi-ethnic society with its colonial and slave-based past creating a common identity is a major problem. Standard Portuguese, as opposed to spoken “Brazilian”, is remote to many Brazilians.…
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Toward a Philosophy of Race in Education University of Tennessee, Knoxville May 2011 221 pages Corey V. Kittrell A Dissertation Presented for the Doctorate of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee, Knoxville There is a tendency in education theory to place the focus on the consequences of racial hegemony (racism, Eurocentric education, low performance by…
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Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2011-06-14 145 pages Maritza Quiñones-Rivera A Dissertation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In my dissertation I discuss how blackness, femaleness…
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Too White to be Regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940. University of Notre Dame, Australia March 2008…