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: June 2014
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New Man in the Tropics: The Nietzschean Roots of Gilberto Freyre’s Multiracial Identity Concept Luso-Brazilian Review Volume 51, Number 1, 2014 pages 93-111 DOI: 10.1353/lbr.2014.0005 Jeroen Dewulf, Associate Professor of German University of California, Berkeley Casa-grande & Senzala (1933), a obra secular de Gilberto Freyre, foi traditionalmente interpretado de um ponto de vista sociólogo e…
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Seeking Roots in Shifting Ground–Dr. Laura Tugman’s topic for 18th Union, June 28 Melungeon Heritage Association: One People, All Colors 2014-05-20 18th Melungeon Union Vardy, Tennessee and Big Stone Gap, Virginia 2014-06-27 through 2014-06-28 Dr. Laura Tugman will discuss her doctoral dissertation, entitled Seeking Roots in Shifting Ground: Ethnic Identity Development and the Melungeons of…
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‘Belle’: Romance, Race And Slavery With Jane Austen Style National Public Radio Tell Me More 2014-05-29 Michel Martin, Host British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw was brought up on Jane Austen adaptations. “You know, the Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home…
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China’s economic engagement in Africa can be measured in dollars — for instance, the $71 million airport expansion contract in Mali, funded by American foreign aid, that went to a Chinese construction firm. More remarkably, it can be measured in people: More than a million Chinese citizens have permanently moved to Africa, buying land, starting…
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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China’s burgeoning presence in Africa—a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people.
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Presentation on ‘African Heritage in Classical Music’ followed by the screening of ‘The Black Mozart in Cuba’ Marcus Garvey Library Tottenham Green Centre 1 Phillip Lane Tottenham, London N15 4JA Saturday, 2014-06-14, 17:00-20:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Studies in association with the Marcus Garvey Library presents ‘Sankofa Saturdays’ African Heritage in Classical Music Music…
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“You Just Said ‘We’”: The complexity of not being White and not being a person of color. Nick Franco May 2014 Nick Franco, Coordinator for the Student Affairs/SOLES Collaborative University of San Diego This past Tuesday night, I did a mock presentation of my dissertation proposal for my dissertation seminar course. It went fairly well,…
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Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face BBC News Magazine 2014-05-13 Mo Asumang is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother. As a well-known TV presenter in Germany she became the target of racist extreme right-wingers and neo-Nazis, who based their attacks on Asumang’s “non-Aryan” background. So she decided to look into…