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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Presentation on ‘African Heritage in Classical Music’ followed by the screening of ‘The Black Mozart in Cuba’ Marcus Garvey Library Tottenham Green Centre 1 Phillip Lane Tottenham, London N15 4JA Saturday, 2014-06-14, 17:00-20:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Studies in association with the Marcus Garvey Library presents ‘Sankofa Saturdays’ African Heritage in Classical Music Music…
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Herb Jeffries cheerfully pays the price of choosing his race
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Herb Jeffries, a.k.a. ‘Bronze Buckaroo’ of Song and Screen, Dies at 100 (or So) The New York Times 2014-05-26 William Yardley Sheelagh McNeill contributed research. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial…
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Radmilla’s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation Cultural Anthropology Volume 29, Issu3 2 (May 2014) pages 385-410 DOI: 10.14506/ca29.2.11 Kristina Jacobsen-Bia, Assistant Professor of Music University of New Mexico Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona, September 1997. A young woman butchers a sheep as the crowd at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds…
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The Bots Are Taking Over The New York Times Magazine 2013-12-20 Julie Bosman Photographs by Rebecca Smeyne Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei, the brothers from Los Angeles who make up the band the Bots, have been writing and playing rock songs together for seven years. Now 20 and 17, they are on the cusp of stardom…
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MOsley WOtta Oregon Art Beat Oregon Public Broadcasting Aired: 2013-05-30 Length: 00:08:24 MOsley WOtta is a sly play-on-words meant to remind us that we are all “mostly water.” This inclusive, hip-hop reminder helps Bend-based man-behind-the-artist Jason Graham find family wherever he goes and to share his danceable message of peace and mutual support.
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Imagining Brazil: Seduction, Samba Canadian Woman Studies / Les Caheiers de la Femme Volume 20, Number 2 (2000) pages 48-56 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada En utilisant des paroles de chants rythmés sur la samba et d‘autre matériel ethnographique, l‘auteure detecte la presence du mulâtre et de propos racistes dans…
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Surprising New Face in Arabic Music The New York Times 2013-12-03 Linsay Crouse Jennifer Grout Sings Umm Kulthum Hits on ‘Arabs Got Talent’ The Arab world has an unlikely new star: an American who sings — but barely speaks — Arabic. Not only that, her genre is traditional Arab music. Plucking her oud, an Arabic…
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Black Beethoven and the Racial Politics of Music History Transition Issue 112, 2013 pages 117-130 DOI: 10.1353/tra.2013.0056 Nicholas T. Rinehart Harvard University Nicholas T. Rinehart debunks theories of Beethoven’s blackness and calls for a reimagining of the classical canon. The Question Was Beethoven Black? He surely wasn’t, but some insist otherwise. The question is not…
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Contesting Identities Through Walker Dance: Mestizo Performance in the Southern Andes of Peru Repercussions: a journal dedicated to all areas of music studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 1994, Volume 3, No. 2 pages 50-80 Zoila Mendoza-Walker This article analyzes an event in the city of Cusco, Peru that reverberated throughout the entire region during…