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: Anglo-Indians
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Being Anglo-Indian: Practices and Stories from Calcutta Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand 2005 263 pages Robyn Andrews, Lecturer, Social Anthropology Programme Massey University A thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Massey University This thesis is an ethnography of Anglo-Indians in Calcutta. All…
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Representations of colonial intimacy in Anglo-Indian narratives Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 2009 272 pages Nandini Sengupta This dissertation examines nineteenth-century manifestations of colonial intimacy in a range of texts produced by Anglo-Indians, capturing their colonial experience from the 1830s to the 1880s. Through these texts, I examine the ideological implications of interracial intimacy in…
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Cedric Dover Wasafiri Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012) pages 56-57 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2012.662322 Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India as a…
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The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the ‘Domiciled Community’ in British India 1858-1930 Oxford University Press January 2012 288 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199697700; ISBN10: 0199697701 Satoshi Mizutani From 1858 to 1930 the concept of whiteness in British India was complex and contradictory. Under the Raj, the spread of racial ideologies was pervasive, but whiteness…
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Anglo-Indian Nostalgia: Longing for India as Homeland Rhizomes Postgraduate Conference Rhizomes: Re-visioning Boundaries Conference The School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2006-02-24 through 2006-02-25 Alzena D’Costa Curtin University of Technology This paper argues that the ‘nostalgia’ that the Anglo-Indian community exhibits in the telling of its (hi)stories can…
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Anglo-Indian Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Western Ballroom Music in Lucknow The Drama Review Volume 48, Number 4 (Winter 2004) Pages 167-182 DOI: 10.1162/1054204042442053 Dr. Bradley Shope, Assistant Professor of Music Texas A&M Universtity, Corpus Christi From the 1920s to the 1940s, Anglo-Indians relished Western popular music. For this marginalized group, this music was a way…