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: August 2012
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Black into White in Nineteenth Century Spanish America: Afro-American Assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Volume 5, Number 1 (May 1984) pages 34-49 DOI: 10.1080/01440398408574864 Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mout Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts In his masterful study of…
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Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…
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Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 Random House 1999 (Originally Published: 1931) 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-75380-0 George S. Schuyler (1895-1977) Introduction by Ishmael Reed What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white?…
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Liberating Blackness: The Theme of Whitening in Two Colombian Short Stories Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 475-493 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0074 Laurence E. Prescott, Professor Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Pennsylvania State University Hablaré del físico de los negros, casi como de carrera. Tienen dos cosas repugnantes para no gustar, el color negro…
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Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention What is the Black German Experience? History, Performance Popular & Visual Cultures Barnard College, Columbia University New York, New York 2012-08-10 through 2012-08-11 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey…
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afro look: Die Geschichte einer Zeitschrift von schwarzen Deutschen University of Massachusetts, Amherst May 2000 245 pages Publication Number: AAT 9978512 ISBN: 9780599844605 Francine Jobatey Submitted to the Graduate School of the University Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures This…
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The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States (review) Callaloo Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages 548-551 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2012.0030 Daynali Flores-Rodriguez, Adjunct Professor of Spanish Inter-American University of Puerto Rico Jiménez Román, Miriam, and Juan Flores, eds. The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. Published a…
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Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family’s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders Penguin Press December 2002 432 pages Paperback ISBN 9780142001035 Mark Perry A story of race consciousness and the fight for equality told through the lives of one extraordinary American family In the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimké traded their elite…
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Who Is Jamaica? The New York Times 2012-08-05 Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica DURING last week’s independence festivities, I took out my prized commemorative plate. It was a gift from the mother of a long-ago boyfriend who, incomprehensibly, complained constantly that his mother loved me…
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Far Corner Of The Strange Empire Central Alberta On The Eve Of Homestead Settlement Great Plains Quarterly Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 1983 pages 92-108 William C. Wonders University of Alberta In the latter part of the nineteenth century, what is now central Alberta was a region in transition. For centuries the area had been…