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: November 2013
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Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-19 Sarah Griffin Zélie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013) Sarah…
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Blanqueamiento, or whitening, is a social, political, and economic practice used in many post-colonial countries to “improve the race” (mejorar la raza) towards a supposed ideal of whiteness. The term blanqueamiento is rooted in Latin America and is used more or less synonymous with racial whitening. However, blanqueamiento can be considered in both the symbolic…
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Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico
Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 9, Issue 3, 2002 pages 281-304 DOI: 10.1080/10702890213969 Isar Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey In this article, I critique some of the discursive terms in which blackness is…
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Race in Biological and Biomedical Research Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine Volume 3, Issue 11 (November 2013) 10 pages DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a008573 Richard S. Cooper, Anthony B. Traub Professor of Community and Family Medicine Loyola University Medical School The concept of race has had a significant influence on research in human biology since the early…
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“It is important to begin by talking about what race is not. Regardless of what our senses seem to tell us, race is not a biologically coherent story about human variation simply because the races we recognize and name are not biologically coherent populations. There is as much genetic variation within racial groups as there…
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Scholars are sometimes (inappropriately) criticized for being activist at the same time they are scholars. More and more often it is accepted and embraced they not only can we be both but that we should be both: that being passionate about what we write about makes for better scholarship. [Yaba] Blay’s work is also an…
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Carlton Mackey: Conversations beyond color Emory Profile Emory News Center 2013-11-22 Kimber Williams As director of Emory’s Ethics and the Arts program — and a lifelong photographer and filmmaker — Carlton Mackey is used to exploring the questions that intrigue him through an artist’s lens. So as he prepared to become a father for the…