Mixed Race Studies

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Month: August 2013

  • Two Cities: Guangzhou/Lagos

    Two Cities: Guangzhou/Lagos Nokoko Institute of African Studies Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Volume 2 (Fall 2011) pages 174-197 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Assistant Professor of African American Studies San José State University, San Jose, California I was in Nigeria in May, the year I turned twenty-nine. And aside from the few hours of electricity per day,…

  • Two worlds… One reflection

    Two worlds… One reflection IDEATE: The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex, Colchester, England Volume 10, Summer 2013 19 pages Yasmin Currid Introduction I went through most of my childhood believing that my family was just the same as everybody else’s. I did not realise that there was something slightly different about the dynamics…

  • Race Reconciled Re-Debunks Race – Anthropology 1.6

    Race Reconciled Re-Debunks Race – Anthropology 1.6 Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2013-02-27 Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York In May 2009, the American Journal of Physical Anthropology published Race Reconciled, a special issue with cutting-edge work by biological anthropologists. These researchers have read the critique of Richard…

  • CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium

    CERS hosts Critical Mixed Race Studies postgraduate symposium School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies University of Leeds 2013-08-08 Peter Edwards, Faculty Web Development Officer Mixing Matters: Critical Intersectionalities The Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS) held its first interdisciplinary, international postgraduate symposium on the 18th May 2013 entitled…

  • Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Aluísio Azevedo

    Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Aluísio Azevedo Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Karina Toledo Agência FAPESP —The Mulatto, by Aluísio Azevedo, is a title that refers to the collective human state. It does not mention a character or a specific situation, but rather a human category that is…

  • Psychologically, the mulatto is an unstable type.

    Psychologically, the mulatto is an unstable type. In the thinking of the white race, the mulattoes generally are grouped with the backward race and share with them the contempt and dislike of the dominant group. Nowhere are they accepted as social equals. The discrimination varies all the way from the more or less successfully concealed…

  • What Do I Tell My Blond Son About Being Black?

    What Do I Tell My Blond Son About Being Black? Gawker 2013-08-17 Anita DeRouen, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing and Teaching Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi “I think we should teach him to use his privilege to his advantage.” It’s Sunday morning, July 14, 2013. My husband and I are talking, have been…

  • About Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C.

    About Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. Biracials Learning About African-American Culture or B.L.A.A.C. 2013-06-18 Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York The idea for this blog came from several discussions with students and young people who come from mixed-race backgrounds, especially so-called “white and black”…

  • A Realidade da Ficção: Ambiguidades Literárias e Sociais em ‘O Mulato’ de Aluísio Azevedo (The Reality of Fiction: Literary and social ambiguities in “The Mulatto” by Aluísio Azevedo)

    The synthesis of this work Estramanho Rodrigo de Almeida should be added the happy choice (as it should be) an epigraph taken from the work of Dercy Ribeiro: “Tour between the two conflicting worlds – that of the black, which he rejects, and white, the rejects – the mulatto humanizes the drama to be two,…

  • Empathetic eye

    Empathetic eye Agência FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Fábio de Castro Agência FAPESP – In 1865, an expedition led by Swiss natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) of Harvard University travelled around Brazil for 15 months to study the country. Among the voluntary collectors that participated in the expedition was a…