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: April 2012
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Bob Marley: the regret that haunted his life The Guardian 2012-04-07 Tim Adams, Staff Writer Director Kevin Macdonald explains how he pieced together his new film about reggae legend Bob Marley, from troubled early years in Jamaica to worldwide adulation – even after death In 2005, the director Kevin Macdonald was working in Uganda on…
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Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 Oxford University Press May 2004 304 pages 15 illus. & 3 maps; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 Hardback ISBN13: 9780195152326; ISBN10: 0195152328 Paperback ISBN13: 978-0-19-515233-3; ISBN10: 0-19-515233-6 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Winner of the Arthur P. Whitaker Prize of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies While…
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A Mestizaje of Epistemologies in American Indian Stories and Ceremony Nakum Volume 2.1 (2011) 49 paragraphs Margaret Cantú-Sánchez Department of English University of Texas, San Antonio A close examination of Native American literature reveals that some Native Americans find it difficult to retain ties to their cultural epistemologies once introduced to the assimilationist pedagogies of…
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A Mixture of Culturas: The New Mestiza CHST 404 – Chicana Feminisms (Spring 2012) 2012-04-07 Erika Meza Loyola Marymount University Mestizaje is commonly known as the mixture of the European race with the Indians living in the Americas, something that began very long ago when the Americas were first being conquered. According to anthropologists on…
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Meet The Bloggers: Chris Terry Marginalia: The Graduate Blog Columbia College Chicago 2012 Tell us a little bit about what you were doing before you came to Columbia. Words are a big deal in my family. My mother was a children’s librarian who always encouraged me to read, which backfired when I would spell things…
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‘It gives me gooseflesh’: Remarkable find in South Side attic Chicago Sun-Times 2012-03-10 Kim Janssen, Staff Reporter Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), Harvard Class of 1870 It wasn’t much more than a ghost house by the time Rufus McDonald got the call. The front door of the abandoned home near 75th and Sangamon was unlocked and…
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Letters from a Planter’s Daughter: Understanding Freedom and Independence in the Life of Susanna Townsend (1853-1869) The University of Alabama McNair Journal Volume 12 (Spring 2012) pages 145-174 R. Isabela Morales Wealthy Alabama cotton planter Samuel Townsend had already fathered eight children by the time Susanna Townsend was born in 1853—her mother, like all the…
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Racial democracy is the notion that Brazilian society is relatively free from the racial prejudice, discrimination, and tension found historically in the United States, South Africa, and other western nations. Supporters of this view indicate as evidence in its favor Brazil’s alleged peaceful abolition of slavery, the supposed lack of racial violence, the prominence of…
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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue Palgrave Macmillan June 2006 408 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7140-1, ISBN10: 1-4039-7140-4 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10837-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10837-7 John D. Garrigus, Associate Professor of History University of Texas, Arlington Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize!…