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: April 14, 2016
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Michele Elam: “The Souls of Mixed Folk” (NBAAS, 31/10/12) YouTube Race & Ethnicity Archive 2016-03-19 “What are you?” The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting at work. “What are you?” The question is disorienting for most, but for…
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Poetry Betrays Whiteness Harriet: A Poetry Blog Poetry Foundation 2016-04-12 Lucas de Lima (Introduction by Daniel Borzutzky) Among the many pointed questions that Lucas de Lima raises in “Poetry Betrays Whiteness” is that of how positions of unitedstatesian privilege can be used “to fight structural inequality and global anti-blackness.” This far-reaching essay touches upon, among…
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Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.
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Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…