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: May 20, 2016
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Woman Crush(ing the Patriarchy) Wednesday: Omaris Zunilda Zamora Latina 2016-05-18 Raquel Reichard, Politics & Culture Editor Black and Latina/Chicana feminisms are life-affirming for countless women of color, but in both movements, AfroLatinas are left at the periphery, if acknowledged at all. This week’s #WCW Omaris Zunilda Zamora wants to change that. The Chicago-born, New York-livin’…
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Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’ Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala German History Volume 34, Issue 2 (June 2016) pages 214-236 DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghw017 Julie Gibbings, Assistant Professor of History University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada In contemporary Guatemala, Q’eqchi’ Mayas of German descent are reclaiming identities as ‘the improved race’…