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: Puerto Rico
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I’m Afro-Boricua. I’m biracial—my mother is white and my father is black, both Puerto Rican. Sometimes people don’t know that I’m black, but I’m black. I was raised in a black family, by my father and grandmother, both unapologetically black and unapologetically Boricua. My sister and I look brown, and our brother looks white. Our…
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Editor’s Note: In the inaugural edition of our Weekend Reading series, journalist David Pastor reviews new work on the legendary black scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg that helps reinstate his Puerto Rican identity.
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The ‘Failed’ Project of Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican Discourse A Contra corriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America Volume 5, Number 3, Spring 2008 pages 243-251 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington Escritura afropuertorriqueña y modernidad (2007),…
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“Double Bind / Double Consciousness” in the Poetry of Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos Cincinnati Romance Review Volume 30 (Winter 2011) pages 69-82 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos constructed a female literary…
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Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory.
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Puerto Rican schoolchildren are taught that regardless of physical appearance they all individually derive from the same aforementioned roots. Regardless of whether this is true or not hasn’t eradicated in Puerto Rico structural or personal racism. Belief in mestizaje silences conversations about white supremacy and doesn’t force those with privilege to take responsibility for it.