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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His life is the stuff of legend: born in 1739 of a slave mother and a French noble father, he became the finest swordsman of his age, an insider at the court of The Sun King, and, most of all, an accomplished musician who came to be known as the “Black Mozart.”
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Performative Aspects of Brazilian Music as a Means of Creating Identity in Rio de Janeiro Universität Wien October 2008 215 pages Adriana Ribeiro-Mayer In Rio de Janeiro’s multi-ethnic society with its colonial and slave-based past creating a common identity is a major problem. Standard Portuguese, as opposed to spoken “Brazilian”, is remote to many Brazilians.…
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In view of the unique and colourful history of the ties between Ireland and Brazil that date back centuries, it is perhaps surprising that the most famous Irish-Brazilian was a mixed-race rock star from Dublin.
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Race, Ethnicity, and Difference in a Contemporary Carioca Pop Music Scene Diagonal: Journal of the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music Volume 6 (2010) [Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Brazilian Music (c1600-Present)] 16 pages Frederick Moehn, Assistant Professor of Music; Affiliate, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University…
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Sonic spaces: Inscribing “coloured” voices in the Karoo, South Africa University of Pennsylvania 2006 228 pages Publication Number: AAT 3246175 Marie R. Jorritsma A Dissertation in Music Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A common stereotype of those classified…
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Enka Superstar Jero: A Conversation and Mini-Concert University of California, Berkeley Wheeler Hall 2011-04-08, 20:00-21:15 PDT (Local Time) Free and open to the public The Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is proud to announce that Jero, the Japanese-African-American enka singer, has been selected as the winner of the 2nd annual…
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Musical Miscegenation? Rock Music and the History of Sex e-misférica Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) Tavia Nyong’o, Associate Professor of Performance Studies New York University Image by Bruce Yonemoto Countering facile analogies between musical hybridity and sex across the color line that characterize certain popular discourses…
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Métis, mixed-ness and music: Aboriginal-Ukrainian encounters and cultural production on the Canadian prairies The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington Canadian Studies Center Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall Wednesday, 2011-04-20 19:00 PDT (Local Time) Marcia Ostashewski, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal intermarriages, often described as “mixed-race,” have been the…
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The Influence of Bob Marley’s Absent, White Father The Dread Library Essays from the University of Vermont Class, Rhetoric of Reggae Music 2002-04-30 Scott Gurtman My fadda was a guy yunno, from England here, yunno? Him was like…like you can read it yunno, it’s one o’dem slave stories: white guy get the black woman and…