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: France
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In 1858 François-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard’s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his “tropical romanticism”: a…
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Zélie Asava of Irish-Kenyan parentage with English citizenship, is a lecturer in film and media theory and national cinemas at Dundalk IT and University College Dublin. She explores mixed-raced identities and its representation in Irish, U.S. and French cinemas.
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In France, a Baby Switch and a Test of a Mother’s Love The New York Times 2015-02-24 Maïa de la Baume GRASSE, France — When Sophie Serrano finally held her daughter, Manon, in her arms after the newborn, suffering from jaundice, had been placed under artificial light, she was taken aback by the baby’s thick…
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Footprints of my other 2012 52 minutes Claude Haffner Born to a mixed race couple in the DRC, then Zaire, in the 1970s, Claude Haffner is part Congolese, part French. From her family home in France, Claude Haffner embarks on a journey in search of her African identity. She is of mixed race, born in…
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Science in support of racial mixture: Charles-Augustin Vandermonde’s Enlightenment program for improving the health and beauty of the human species Endeavor Available online 2013-12-25 (Corrected Proof) DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2013.11.001 Clara Pinto-Correia Instituto de Investigação Científica Bento da Rocha Cabral, Lisboa, Portugal Centro de Estudos de História e Filosofia das Ciências, Évora, Portugal João Lourenço Monteiro Departamento…
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The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa Indiana University Press 2013-03-18 296 pages 9 b&w illustrations, 5 maps 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-00674-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00673-8 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-0-253-00705-6 Hilary Jones, Assistant Professor of History University of Maryland, College Park The Métis of Senegal is a history of…
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Exclusive: Sonia Rolland talks activism, new film Euromight: Your Guide to Afro-Europe 2013-04-15 Epée Hervé Dingong Sonia Rolland, (Miss France 2000), is an actress and model who has been outspoken about racial issues in the film and fashion industries, and in the media. In this exclusive interview she talks about her work, politics and what…