Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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: October 20, 2014
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Race, sex, and colonialism OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2014-10-20 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts DJ/Presenter Reggie Yates and Dr. Carina Ray review historical documents As an Africanist historian committed to reaching broader publics, I was thrilled when the research team…
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Who Here Is A Negro? Michigan Quarterly Review Volume 53, Issue 1 (Winter 2014) Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Last fall I made a migration south. The promise of a year’s sabbatical and an escape from the demands of teaching and…
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The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada by Joanne Rappaport (review) [Roland review] Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 13, Number 3, 2014 pages 253-255 DOI: 10.1353/lag.2014.0045 L. Kaifa Roland, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado, Boulder Joanne Rappaport, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New…
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Adopting an alternative approach to the question of difference, Joanne Rappaport examines what it meant to be mestizo (of mixed parentage) in the early colonial era. She draws on lively vignettes culled from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century archives of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia) to show that individuals classified as “mixed” were not…