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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Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 331-359 Jason Oliver Chang, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies University of Connecticut The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant…
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Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited.
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“Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 633-663 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416657 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried…
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Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California University of Oklahoma Press 2010 256 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″, Illustrations: 7 B&W Illus. Hardcover ISBN: 9780806140902 Paperback ISBN: 9780806142371 Carlos Manuel Salomon, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies California State University, East Bay The first biography of a politically savvy Californio who straddled three eras Two-time governor…
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Culture: The face in the mirror is mestizo San Antonio Current San Antonia, Texas 2006-02-22 Elaine Wolff, Current Editor Plaza de Armas A two-day roundtable takes a big eraser to identity lines “I’m looking for the mestizo eye, the mestizo subjunctive, the mestizo soul,” says author John Phillip Santos as we wander through Retratos: 2,000…
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Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 5, Number 3 (November 2010) pages 273-299 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2010.513829 Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness…