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: Germany
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Queer Memory and Black Germans The New Fascism Syllabus: Exploring the New Right through Scholarship and Civic Engagement 2021-06-08 Tiffany N. Florvil, Associate Professor of European History University of New Mexico Memorial plaque, May-Ayim-Ufer, Berlin. OTFW CC BY-SA 3.0. In “The German Catechism,” Dirk Moses offers an interesting intervention by challenging the idea of the…
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Born to an Ethiopian mother and a German father, Tigist Selam enjoyed the diverse experience of growing up in Nigeria, Argentina, and foremost Germany. In an article featured in the book “One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race“, Tigist explores the complexities of racial classifications, and the different ways that people live and experience Blackness.
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(Un-)mixing in the Mandate: purity and persistence of ‘German-time’ in New Guinea Chapter in: Norig Neveu, Philippe Bourmaud and Chantal Verdeil (Eds), Experts et expertise dans les mandats de la Société des Nations: figures, champs et outils, [The Expert in the Mandate], Inalco Presses, 2020 Christine Winter, Associate Professor and Matthew Flinders Fellow in History…
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There have always been people suffering from anti-Blackness. And May Ayim highlights the continuity of the Black experience—not only her own, but those before her as well.
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Curiosity about the photograph – who the girl was and what she was doing in Germany – set the award-winning film-maker off on a path that led to Where Hands Touch, a new movie starring Amandla Stenberg and George MacKay.
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Written in startlingly beautiful prose, “Harmless Like You” is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin, following Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and Yuki’s son Jay who, as an adult in the present day, is forced to confront his mother’s abandonment of him when he was only two…
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The realities of being mixed-race are unique and often overlooked in mainstream narratives, but documentary maker Ryan Cooper-Brown wants to change that. His new short documentary film “Being Both” tackles issues that directly relate to the mixed-race experience, from displacement and family conflict to racism and fetishisation.
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Using my own family’s history to show that mixed race children are the dross that needed to be removed from Germany, I employed memory and post-memory as my theoretical framing, coupled with authoethnography, family interviews, and narratives as my methodological tools.