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: July 2017
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“A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,” written by historian ALLYSON HOBBS, made it to the 2017 summer reading lists of Harvard University Press and The Paris Review.
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Rachel Dolezal represents everything I ever feared people would think about me when I told them I was half Nigerian-half Austrian. She embodies the cause of the doubt I first see flash across people’s faces when I tell them that yes, my biological mother is black, my father is white and I am a product of…
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[Lia Vainer] Schucman points to what she calls “the racism of intimacy” as a unique feature of Brazilian culture arising from its history. In contrast with the segregationist racism that prevailed in South Africa or the South in the United States, what we have in Brazil is a kind of racism that presupposes interaction between…
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Remapping Black Germany collects thirteen pieces that consider the wide array of issues facing Black German groups and individuals across turbulent periods, spanning the German colonial period, National Socialism, divided Germany, and the enormous outpouring of Black German creativity after 1986.
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New insights on an important Native American writer
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I am a Nigerian/Austrian woman who is frequently mistaken for being fully white, due to my blonde hair and light eyes. For years I have heard people come up with phrases like “Oh now I see it’” when I pull out a picture of my black mother, whom I look very much like, leaving me…
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Liminality, hybridity and ‘Third Space:’ Bessie Head’s A question of power Neohelicon First Online: 2017-06-07 pages 1–17 DOI: 10.1007/s11059-017-0387-8 Sayyede Maryam Hosseini University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Hybridity has been a controversial issue not only in eugenic hypotheses of the nineteenth century but also in the postcolonial, cultural, linguistic, and geographical contexts. It can be seen as…