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: June 22, 2016
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In “Unreasonable Histories,” Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book’s core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.
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Dwayne Johnson – “Race Shifter” in a “Post-Racial” World? Shadow and Act: On Film, Television and Web Content of Africa and Its Diaspora 2016-06-13 Sergio Mims Dwayne Johnson With “Central Intelligence” hitting theaters this weekend, starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, a conversation worth having… I’m sure we’ve all privy to all the chatter about…
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The enigmatic model made her way to London from Jamaica in the early 19th century to sit for the Pre-Raphaelites, and her legacy lives on in their impactful work
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Florence Nightingale supporters in row over black rival’s new statue, claiming she is venerated based on ‘false achievements’ The Daily Mail 2016-06-20 Martin Robinson, UK Chief Reporter Mary Seacole set to have £500,000 statue unveiled at St Thomas, London But critics say that her legacy is hugely oversold for political reasons Florence Nightingale Society says…