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: Walter Thompson-Hernandez
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Afro-Mexicans Are Pushing For Legal Recognition in Mexico’s National Constitution Remezcla 2015-11-09 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California The myth of the Latin American racial democracy, scholars believe, began in Brazil following the abolishment of slavery in 1888, when government officials declared that high rates of racial mixing had officially absolved the nation of its racial…
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These are the beautiful, complex Blaxicans of Los Angeles Fusion 2015-09-24 Jorge Rivas, National Affairs Correspondent Back when Walter Thompson-Hernandez was in graduate school, his friends and family would give him blank stares as he explained what he was studying. Finally, in an effort to make his work more accessible, he started an Instagram account…
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This Instagram Project is Giving a Voice to the “Blaxican” Experience Remezcla 2015-07-28 Yara Simón The history of race in the United States is often told in terms of black and white, a binary that leaves many out of the equation. “Blaxican” researcher Walter Thompson-Hernandez is trying to expand the conversation, with a project that…
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Q&A “Blaxicans of L.A.”: capturing two cultures in one The Los Angeles Times 2015-07-21 Ebony Bailey When race in this country is often discussed in black and white, where do those who don’t quite fit the dime fall?. Walter Thompson-Hernandez, a researcher with the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at USC, is attempting…
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Blaxicans (Black Mexicans) of California African American – Latino World 2015-04-07 Bill Smith This post is not about the black Mexicans who were historically born and raised in Mexico, but those born and raised in Los Angeles, California’s metropolitan area to Mexican and African-American parents. According to the University of Southern California researcher Walter Thompson-Hernández,…