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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Café con leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela University of Texas Press 1990 184 pages 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-292-79080-3 Winthrop R. Wright, Professor Emeritus of History University of Maryland For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well…
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Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of Latin American History Universidad Nacional de Colombia This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case Tripod: New Orleans At 300 89.9 FM WWNO New Orleans, Louisiana 2016-06-16 Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Producer The Provost Guard in New Orleans taking up Vagrant Negroes. (1974.25.9.190) THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION It was June. It was hot. Kids were out of school, keeping busy outdoors. Parents were inside. Kind…
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Star Trek’s Zoe Saldana Drops the Mic Allure June 2016 Sarah Van Boven She doesn’t shy away from confronting sexism. She doesn’t shy away from facing issues of race in Hollywood. In fact, Zoe Saldana doesn’t shy away. Full stop. Zoe Saldana is talking shit. No, for real: “Everybody told me, ‘Oh, don’t worry, I…
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For me, identifying as Black has nothing to do with distancing myself from my mom, her whiteness, her family, heritage, or culture. Rather, it is one way I resist racism every day. By claiming and embracing my Blackness, I push back on the messages within me and around me that would have us believing that…
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A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.
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Another Health Funder That’s Focused on Race in a Big Way Inside Philanthropy 2016-06-16 Rob McCarthy The racial dimension of health equity has long preoccupied top funders in the healthcare space and it’s not hard to see why. Spend five minutes looking at health data for the United States and you’ll be blown away by…
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Revealed: MP’s alleged killer ‘bought manual on how to make a handgun and bombs from a US far-right group and has links to neo-Nazi organisations going back decades’ The Daily Mail London, England 2016-06-17 James Tozer, Chris Greenwood, Andy Dolan, and Claire Duffin For The Daily Mail Richard Spillett, Stephanie Linning, and Lucy Crossley for…