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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Brazil’s hidden slavery past uncovered at Valongo Wharf BBC News 2014-12-24 Julia Carneiro BBC Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro is a city looking to the future. Major development work is underway in the city’s historic port area as it prepares to host the Olympics in 2016. But the construction effort to make all…
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Genetic diversity of Sub-Saharan Africa revealed BBC News 2014-12-04 Rebecca Morelle, Science Correspondent Scientists have completed a comprehensive study of genetic diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. The African Genome Variation Project analysed the DNA of 1,800 people living across the continent. The data is helping scientists to understand how susceptibility to disease varies across the region…
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Lewis Hamilton wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014 BBC News 2014-12-14 Lewis Hamilton has been voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014. The 29-year-old Mercedes driver won his second Formula 1 world title this season and joined an exclusive club by becoming the fourth Briton to win the drivers’ championship at…
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Honduran held in Mexican jail returns home BBC News 2014-11-08 A Honduran migrant who was jailed for more than five years by Mexican police is expected to arrive in his home country on Sunday. Angel Amilcar Colon Quevedo belongs to the Garifuna community, descended from African slaves and indigenous groups. He was picked up in…
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Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face BBC News Magazine 2014-05-13 Mo Asumang is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother. As a well-known TV presenter in Germany she became the target of racist extreme right-wingers and neo-Nazis, who based their attacks on Asumang’s “non-Aryan” background. So she decided to look into…
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Blow to multiple human species idea BBC News 2013-10-17 Melissa Hogenboom, Science Reporter The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow. Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species. Writing in…
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Anglo-Indians: Is their culture dying out? BBC News Magazine 2013-01-03 Kris Griffiths A product of the British Empire, with a mixture of Western and Indian names, customs and complexions, 2,000 Anglo-Indians are to attend a reunion in Calcutta. But their communities in both the UK and the subcontinent are disappearing, writes Anglo-Indian Kris Griffiths. Southall…
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Hay winner’s search for identity BBC News 2003-05-27 A first-time writer who travelled halfway round the world to trace her roots has won the Welsh Book of the Year award at the Hay Festival. Charlotte Williams’ tale of her search for her identity, entitled Sugar and Slate, took her to three different continents. Ms Williams,…