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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WHEN she was growing up in County Tipperary in the 1960s, Lorraine Maher (pictured) met no other black people and on the few occasions they came into her midst she would avoid them.
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‘I shouldn’t have to defend my Irishness’ – tackling the identity struggles faced by mixed race Irish The Irish Post 2016-10-10 Erica Doyle Higgins, Digital Reporter The above image of Lorraine Maher Faissal as a child is the main image of the #IAmIrish Project. (Picture: Lorraine Maher Faissal) FOR the first time a photography exhibition…
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A new exhibition in London challenges the perceptions of what Irish people look like
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Social-practice art challenges the status quo The Winnipeg Free Press 2016-05-30 Alison Gillmor, Writer – Arts and Life From KC Adams’ Perception series, 2014-15. Adams’ portraits blend personal, political Even if you don’t regularly visit art galleries, you probably saw some of KC Adams’ work in the weeks following the notorious Maclean’s magazine article that…
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The Life and Work of Doctor-Turned-Photographer Zun Lee PetaPixel 2016-02-13 Michael Zhang, Founder & Co-Editor By day, Zun Lee is a doctor in Toronto, Canada. When he’s not working, he’s often unwinding from stress with a camera in hand. As a self-taught photographer, his documentary and street projects have caught the eye of The New…
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A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico University of Oklahoma Press 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806148649 Stephanie Lewthwaite, Lecturer in American History, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region…
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Who’s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It’s not Lincoln… The Washington Post 2016-03-15 Jennifer Beeson Gregory Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass would become one of the most well-known abolitionists, orators, and writers of his time. He understood and heralded not only the power of the written or spoken…
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black girls rule: celebrating brazilian women of colour i-D 2016-03-08 Hattie Collins Weudson Ribeiro’s new photobook Black Girl Power is shining a light on black female identity and LGBT women of colour in brazil. Brasilia based photographer, journalist and political scientist Weudson Ribeiro is known for his images celebrating Brazilian queer culture. In his latest…