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: Ireland
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This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation.
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Singer/Songwriter Laura Izibor explores multicultural Dublin, Ireland through her eyes. Featured are Temple Bar area, the pubs, the Guinness factory, the Grand Canal, the Royal Canal and a statue of Phil Lynott (the only African-Irish statue in Ireland).
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“The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Race, Miscegenation, and the Victorian Staging of Irishness Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 29, Number 2 (September 2001) pages 383–396 Scott Boltwood, Associate Professor of English Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia THROUGHOUT THE NINETEENTH CENTURY both the English popular and scientific communities increasingly argued for a distinct racial difference…
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Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers Routledge 2012-07-11 234 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-65367-1 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-80189-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-85989-6 Lauren Onkey, Vice President of Education and Public Programs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland, Ohio Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between…
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Ireland and African-America Clinton Institute for American Studies University College Dublin, Ireland 2012-03-09 through 2012-03-11 Report On the 9 – 10 March 2012, The Clinton Institute for American Studies held a two day international conference entitled Ireland and African-America. Unfortunately, the main keynote speaker Ishmael Reed had to withdraw from the conference on the 6…
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My Eyes Only Look Out Brandon Books October 2001 236 pages ISBN: 9780863222849 Margaret McCarthy Irish people describe the realities of being of mixed race in a mostly white society In the first book of its kind, Irish people describe, in a series of compelling interviews, the realities of being of mixed race in a…
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Mixed-race Rose contestant snubs racist websites Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland 2008-08-03 Ken Sweeney A mixed-race contestant who is competing in this year’s Rose of Tralee says she has no fears about travelling to Ireland to take part in the contest despite a series of racist remarks made against her on a website. London Rose Belinda…
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Irish and ‘brown’ – Mixed ‘race’ Irish women’s identity and the problem of belonging Women’s Movement: Migrant Women Transforming Ireland Selection of papers from a conference held in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2003-03-20 through 2003-03-21 pages 86-90 Angeline Morrison Falmouth College of Arts People are beginning to talk about the ‘invisibility’ of Whiteness. I am…