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: March 2013
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Brazil’s affirmative action law offers a huge hand up The Christian Science Monitor 2013-02-12 Sara Miller Llana, Latin America Bureau Chief and Staff Writer Public universities in Brazil will reserve half their seats to provide racial, income, and ethnic diversity – a law that goes the furthest in the Americas in attempting race-based equality. It…
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Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948 Duke University Press 2003 320 pages Illustrations: 9 b&w photos, 5 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3092-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3080-6 Nancy P. Appelbaum, Associate Professor of History Binghamton University, State University of New York Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who…
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Challenges to Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Skin Color and Verification at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Florida Volume 14, Issue 1 (Fall 2012) 8 pages Laura Hundersmarck College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida Historically, Brazilian racial identity has been constructed from a color…
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Hist7362: Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University College of London 2013 Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History This course examines race and ethnicity, and processes of racialised and ethnic exclusion, in Latin America in historical perspective. It invites us to consider the historical role played by race and ethnicity…
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Canada’s Métis win 142-year-old land ruling BBC News 2013-03-08 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the Métis indigenous group 142 years ago. In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was “not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction”. The…
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Historicising Whiteness: From the Case of Late Colonial India Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 2, Number 1 (2006) Whiteness and the Horizons of Race Satoshi Mizutani It has been a while since critical race and whiteness studies have disseminated the now-familiar notion that whiteness is not a…
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Nathan Crowell on Racial Identity: Gloucester County, Virginia, revisited Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-01-14 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Some time ago, in response to my 10 November 2011 post, “Free People of Color in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County,” (which I…
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Examining ‘Latinidad’ in Latin America: Race, ‘Latinidad’ and the Decolonial Option Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 8, Number 2, (2012) Directions and Intersections 11 pages Eugenia Demuro, Visiting Fellow School of Language Studies, College of Arts and Social Sciences Australian National University This article provides a critical…
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The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations Cambridge University Press December 2001 528 pages 12 b/w illus. 128 tables 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521652759 Paperback ISBN: ISBN:9780521022392 eBook ISBN: 9780511837128 Francisco M. Salzano Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Maria C. Bortolini Universidade Federal…
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Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review) French History Volume 27, Issue 1 (2013) pages 135-137 DOI: 10.1093/fh/crs158 Emily Musil Church, Assistant Professor of History Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique. By Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978…