Mixed Race Studies

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Month: March 2013

  • (Miscege)nación en O Cortiço

    (Miscege)nación en O Cortiço Trans: Revue de Littérature Générale et Comparée Issue 5 (2008) 10 pages (24 paragraphs) Brian L. Price, Assistant Professor of Spanish Wake Forest University Written a year after the proclamation of Brazilian independence, O Cortiço by Aluisio Azevedo depicts the demographic composition of the country with a naturalistic sense of detail…

  • Decline In U.S. Whites, Rise Of Latinos Blurring Traditional Racial Lines

    Decline In U.S. Whites, Rise Of Latinos Blurring Traditional Racial Lines The Huffington Post 2013-03-17 Hope Yen The Associated Press Associated Press writers Elaine Ganley in Montfermeil, France, Jenny Barchfield in Rio de Janeiro and Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas contributed to this report. WASHINGTON — Welcome to the new off-white America. A historic decline…

  • The portrait of a nation: Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s study on the Brazilian ‘anthropological types’, 1910-1920

    The portrait of a nation: Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s study on the Brazilian ‘anthropological types’, 1910-1920 (Retratos da nação: os ‘tipos antropológicos’ do Brasil nos estudos de Edgard Roquette-Pinto, 1910-1920) Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas Volume 7, Number 3 (September/December 2012) pages 645-670 ISSN 1981-8122 DOI: 10.1590/S1981-81222012000300003 Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio…

  • In particular, interracial images are used to perpetuate negative stereotypes yet are simultaneously marketed as an example of how color-blind we have become and of the declining significance of race.

    Throughout the various media realms—television, film, news media, and the less clearly defined intersecting worlds of music, sports, and youth culture—representations of interracial sex and relationships follow certain patterns, and what emerges is a delicate dance between interracial sex sells and interracial sex alienates.  The small number of representations as well as the particular types…

  • Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture

    There is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the media, that inform how we think about love across the color…

  • critical mixed race studies

    Critical mixed race studies (CMRS) is transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational in scope. It places the concept of mixed race at the critical center of focus such that multiracial individuals become subjects of historical, social, and cultural processes rather than simply objects of analysis. This involves the study of racial consciousness among racially mixed people, the…

  • Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival® is Moving On and Making Room

    Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival® is Moving On and Making Room 2013-03-18 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival® lives on, but only in our own hearts, voices and its original mission. The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival® celebrated its final event in June 2012. I hope…

  • Hardships for Filipino mixed-race children

    Hardships for Filipino mixed-race children Al Jazeera 2013-02-26 Jamela Alindogan Thousands of mixed-race children grow up without their fathers in the Philippines. Most of them are of Korean or American descent. Many often end up living on the streets without any support. Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Manila.

  • POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream

    POWER: Post-racial Canada still a dream The Chronicle Herald Halifax, Nova Scotia 2013-03-17 Megan Power And we’re reluctant to face it, says Hill Calling Canada a multicultural paradise is simply delusional, says author Lawrence Hill.   He made his comments prior to a public reading in Halifax last week, in which he was candid and…

  • My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond…

    I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me. Walter White, “Why I Remain a Negro,” The Saturday Review of Literature, October 11, 1947: 13