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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Day: September 21, 2013
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Call for Papers – ‘Skin Tone, “Colourism” and “Passing”’ University of Leeds School of Sociology and Social Policy Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies Leeds, West Yorkshire, England 2013-09-11 Peter Edwards The Race in the Americas (RITA) group, in partnership with the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), seeks abstract submissions on the theme of…
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Purchasing Whiteness in Colonial Latin America Not Even Past: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner Department of History University of Texas at Austin 2013-09-18 Ann Twinam, Professor of History University of Texas, Austin The castas, or mixed race populations, suffered numerous forms of discrimination in colonial Latin America, but in…
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Throughout the twentieth century, the post-revolutionary Mexican State had used mestizaje as a symbol of national unity and social integration. By the end of the millennium, however, Mexico had gone from a PRI-dominated, economically protectionist nation to a more democratic, economically globalizing one.