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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New Latin American pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio not a person of color? New York Amsterdam News New York, New York 2013-03-21 Courtenay Brown, Special to the AmNews The installation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I on March 13 caused a stir of questions regarding his race. Yes, he was the first pope from…
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The reawakening of Afro-Argentine culture Global Post 2009-08-30 Anil Mundra Descendants of slaves are starting to assert their identity but it’s not easy in South America’s whitest country. BUENOS AIRES — “Liberty has no color” read the signs held outside a Buenos Aires city courthouse. “Arrested for having the wrong face,” and “Suspected of an…
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Black into White in Nineteenth Century Spanish America: Afro-American Assimilation in Argentina and Costa Rica Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Volume 5, Number 1 (May 1984) pages 34-49 DOI: 10.1080/01440398408574864 Lowell Gudmundson, Professor of Latin American Studies and History Mout Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts In his masterful study of…
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Blackness in Argentina: Jazz, Tango and Race Before Perón* Past and Present Volume 216, Issue 1 (August 2012) pages 215-245 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gts008 Matthew B. Karush, Associate Professor of History George Mason University On the question of race and nation, the dominant Latin American paradigm has never applied to Argentina. In Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere, twentieth-century…
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George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in Argentina since the time of independence, making an exciting and important contribution to both Latin American and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that…