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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Editor who grew up black in Nazi Germany dies The Miami Herald 2013-01-21 Freida Frisaro, Associated Press MIAMI — Hans Massaquoi, a former managing editor of Ebony magazine who wrote a distinctive memoir about his unusual childhood growing up black in Nazi Germany, has died. He was 87. His son said Massaquoi died Saturday, on…
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The Mischling Experience in Oral History The Oral History Review Volume 35, Issue 2 (2008) pages 139-158 DOI: 10.1093/ohr/ohn025 Peter Monteath, Associate Professor of History Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia This paper examines the usefulness of oral history in dealing with the fate of the so-called Mischlinge in Nazi Germany; that is, people categorized by the…
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Germans Loving Others: Narrating Interracial Romance in Kenya, North America, and Guatemala 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 70: Central European History Society 3 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University Papers: “Seeking Winnetou:…
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Against Black-Face Roles in German Theatre Avaaz: Community Petitions 2012-10-14 Gyavira Lasana Last January Schlosspark Theatre in Berlin opened “I’m Not Rappaport” by Herb Gardner. The production featured a white actor in black-face in the role of Midge Carter, portrayed in New York by Ossie Davis. When concerned theatre professionals complained on the website of…
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Jazz, Race Collide With War In 1930s Europe Tell Me More National Public Radio 2012-03-26 Jacki Lyden, Host The novel Half Blood Blues explores an often overlooked slice of history: black jazz musicians in Germany on the eve of World War II. The book moves from 1992 to 1939, from Baltimore to Berlin to Paris.…
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Blackface, Whiteness and the Power of Definition in German Contemporary Theatre The International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” invites Bühnenwatch Studio 1 Kunstquartier Bethanien Mariannenplatz 2 / 10 997 Berlin 2012-10-16, 11:00-16:30 CEST (Local Time) With presentations by Sharon Otoo, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, Dr. Daniele Daude, Dr. Azadeh Sharifi and Julia Lemmle Moderated by Oliver Kontny…
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Afro-German Literature and Films Gerlind Institute for Cultural Studies, Oakland, California 4 two-hour classes Marion Gerlind, Founder and Executive Director This seminar will familiarize students with the history of a minority population in Germany who has gained significant visibility in German media since the 1980s. Having confronted racist stereotyping and media (mis)representations, Black Germans have…
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Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany University of California, Berkeley Center for Race & Gender Multicultural Community Center, Hearst Field Annex-D 2012-09-25, 12:40-14:00 PDT (Local Time) A reading by Ika Hügel-Marshall Ika Hügel-Marshall was the child of an African-American serviceman and a white German woman. Born and raised in post-Hitler Germany, she tells about her…