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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And if We Weren’t Genetically Mixed Race? Cubanow Havana, Cuba 2013-12-23 Luis Toledo Sande (Translated by Dayamí Interián) To effectively fight racism, it’s necessary to know everything about it and expose its tricks. Otherwise, we run the risk of getting trapped by them, since they are powerful, able to “innocently” camouflage themselves in the interstices…
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Cuba’s mixed-race population grows Fox News Latino 2013-11-08 EFE News Service The number of mixed-race people in Cuba continues to increase as the ranks of those identifying themselves as white or black declines, according to the results of the 2012 Census released Friday. The proportion of mixed-race people grew from 24.9 percent in 2002 to…
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Unbecoming blackness: the diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America [Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 5, 2014 pages 889-890 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.847200 Nora Gámez Torres, Visiting scholar Cuban Research Institute Florida International University, Miami Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora cultures of Afro-Cuban America, by Antonio López, New York, New York University Press, 2012, xi + 272…
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Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History by Kathleen López (review) Journal of Latin American Geography Volume 12, Number 3, 2013 pages 234-236 DOI: 10.1353/lag.2013.0049 Joseph L. Scarpaci, Professor Emeritus of Geography Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kathleen López, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013) The new millennium cast…
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Cuban Color Classification and Identity Negotiation: Old Terms in a New World University of Pittsburgh 2004 246 pages Shawn Alfonso Wells Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Pittsburgh in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy This thesis analyzes how the Cuban Revolution’s transnational discourse on blackness…
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“Chinese Cubans” shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, López draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim.
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A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…