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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Tag: Daniel McNeil
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This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…
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‘The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood’: Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 37, Issue 4 (December 2011) pages 731-745 DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2011.613691 Daniel McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In his influential account of post-colonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy…
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Black devils, white saints and mixedrace femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change Critical Arts Volume 25, Issue 3 (2011) Special Issue: The Afropessimism Phenomenon pages 360-376 DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2011.615140 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom This article sheds new light on abstract definitions of Afropessimism by analysing…
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Daniel McNeil to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #219-Daniel McNeil When: Wednesday, 2011-08-03, 22:00Z (18:00…
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Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiah [Amaye Review] New Black Arts Alliance 2011-02-18 Muli Amaye, Part 1 Tutor, Creative Writing Lancaster University Daniel R. McNeil. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-415-87226-3, Paperback ISBN 978-0-415-89391-6, eBook…
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Slimy subjects? Barack Obama, Mixed-Race Metaphors & Neoliberal Multiculturalism The Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation University of Hull Oriel Chambers 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE [Map] Thursday, 2010-12-02, 16:30-18:00Z Daniel McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies University of Newcastle Public Lecture. For more information, click here.
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“The devil made the mulatto”: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history.…
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American demands, African treasures, Mixed possibilities The African Diaspora Archaeology Network University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign December 2006 Newsletter ISSN: 1933-8651 16 pages Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom In the 1990s, many Americans sought to cast themselves as heroic defenders of the liberal arts by condemning Afrocentricity. This…