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: Journal of Black Studies
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Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship Journal of Black Studies Volume 43, Number 8 (November 2012) pages 847-871 DOI: 10.1177/0021934712461794 Niyi Afolabi, Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin Between the radicalism of Black Brazilian movements of the 1980s, an aftermath of the negation and rejection of the myth of…
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El Que No Tiene Dingo, Tiene Mandingo: The Inadequacy of the “Mestizo” as a Theoretical Construct in the Field of Latin American Studies-The Problem and Solution Journal of Black Studies Volume 27, Number 2 (November 1996) pages 278-291 Andrew Juan Rosa Temple University I am Yoruba, I am Lucumi, Mandingo, Congo, Carabli. —Nicolás Guillén The…
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This essay is a response to an article recently published by Will South titled “A Missing Question Mark: The Unknown Henry Ossawa Tanner” in the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. Tanner was the foremost African American artist of the late 19th century. He has emerged as an exemplar of Black achievement in the arts and is…
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Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective by Mark Christian [Book Review] Journal of Black Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (November 2001) pages 261-264 DOI: 10.1177/002193470103200206 Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies Temple University Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective, by Mark Christian. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Mark Christian has written a perceptive, enlightening…