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 2016
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Given these many contradictions, scholars have argued that rather than build racially egalitarian societies, Latin American elites simply created a more hegemonic and durable form of racial domination than their counterparts had in the United States or South Africa (Hanchard 1994; Marx 1998; Winddance Twine 1998; Winant 2001; Goldberg 2002; Sawyer 2006). According to these…
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Michelle Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 The New York Times 2016-06-18 William Grimes Michelle Cliff sometime in the 1980s. In 1975, she met the poet Adrienne Rich, who became her partner and died in 2012. Michelle Cliff, a Jamaican-American writer whose novels, stories and nonfiction essays drew on her multicultural…
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New Yale award to honor high school juniors for community engagement Yale News New Haven, Connecticut 2016-06-15 This photograph of Ebenezer Bassett is part of the collection in the Yale Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Select high school juniors across the nation will be honored for their public service through the Yale Bassett Award…
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How Pat Cleveland Conquered Racism to Become the World’s First Black Supermodel Harper’s Bazaar 2016-06-15 Kate Storey, News Edtor Photograph: Kathryn Wirsing Pat Cleveland was 16 years old when she was told she would never make it as a model. It was the late Sixties, and Cleveland, who had just signed with Ford Models, was…
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“I am as Portuguese as I am Indian as I am black. I believe in building a mestizo identity, which means to have everything together with balance. When people come to Brazil, they forget their ancestral identity. They tend to. So Brazilians become Brazilians very quick. People don’t say here, “I’m Afro-this and this.” Or,…
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Theatre Review: ‘An Octoroon’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Maryland Theatre Guide 2016-06-05 Jennifer Minich We need to talk about An Octoroon: a razor-sharp, thought-provoking, radical, comical blast from the past. Playwright and DC native (bonus points) Branden Jacobs-Jenkins returns to Woolly Mammoth for the DC premiere of An Octoroon, an adaption of the 1859…
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The 18th-century Brazilian sculptor Aleijadinho was the mixed-race son of a black slave and one of his country’s most legendary artists. In the gold-rich state of Minas Gerais, where millions lost their lives in the mines, tourists still pay to visit the immaculate baroque churches he embellished.