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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Month: January 2012
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Fifty years after Frantz Fanon: beyond diversity Advances in Psychiatric Treatment Volume 18, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 25-31 DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.110.008847 Adedapo Sikuade Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), a West Indian of mixed race, was a French colonial psychiatrist trained in Lyon, France, who worked mainly in colonial North Africa between 1953 and 1957. He was one…
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Black, White, Other: Racial categories are cultural constructs masquerading as biology Natural History Volume 103, Number 12 (December 1994) pages 32-35 Jonathan Marks, Professor of Anthropology University of North Carolina, Charlotte While reading the Sunday edition of the New York Times one morning last February, my attention was drawn by an editorial inconsistency. The article…
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Until Darwin, Science, Human Variety and the Origins of Race Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010 224 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978 1 84893 100 8 E-book ISBN: 978 1 84893 101 5 B. Ricardo Brown, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York Until the publication of Charles Darwin’s On…
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“White Slaves” and the “Arrogant Mestiza”: Reconfiguring Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don and Ramona American Literature Volume 69, Number 4 (December, 1997) pages 813-839 David Luis-Brown, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and English Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California In Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona (1884) and The Squatter and the Don (1885) by Maria…
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Mix Up, Mix Up: Reviewing Bob Marley as the Militant Mulatto University of Miami Fall 2011 ENG 106 R4/S4 Rachel Panton, Lecturer of English In lieu of what would have been Bob Marley’s 66th birthday, we will explore the impact of Rastafari on the life and music of Marley, and on other contemporary Roots Reggae…
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Marley class inspires UM students South Florida Times 2009-09-08 Juliana Accioly CORAL GABLES — On a recent weekday, students at the University of Miami watched a screen in front of a blackboard ignite with lively performances of music legend Bob Marley. Then, suddenly, those images were juxtaposed with graphic footage of segregation and violence. When…
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HIS 3015: Intermarraige in the U.S.: Race, Sex and Power in a Multicultural Society Castleson State College, Vermont Fall 2011, Fall 2014 An overview of the historical evolution of intermarriage and sexual relations among the various racial and ethnic groups comprising the population of the United States, and the myriad ways in which “miscegenation” has…
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“The Case Was Very Black against” Her: Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Racial Ambiguity at the “Colored American Magazine” American Periodicals Volume 16, Number 1 (2006) pages 52-73 Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Librarian for History, American Literature, and American Culture University of Michigan When Pauline Hopkins’s short story. “Talma Gordon,” appeared in the October 1900…
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A Jazz Celebration – Remembering the Life of Philippa Schuyler Southbank Centre London, England The Clore Ballroom 2012-01-27, 17:30Z The Abram Wilson Quartet Charismatic New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Abram Wilson debuts original music inspired by the life of the Harlem born, mixed race classical piano prodigy, Philippa Schuyler, who died tragically young in 1967.…