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: Jamaica
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Black & White: Search for roots uncovers forgotten family secret National Post Toronto, Canada 2012-02-17 Sarah Boesveld, General Assignment Writer About 20 years ago, David Dossett watched his grandfather politely shut down a woman who called to say she was a relative and that their family had come to Canada from Jamaica and that they…
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Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley’s Story The New York Times 2012-04-06 John Anderson Of all the friends, lovers, relatives and Rastas that the director Kevin Macdonald wrangled into his new documentary, “Marley,” one of his favorite finds was Dudley Sibley, a onetime recording artist and the janitor at the Jamaican recording studio where…
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Bob Marley: the regret that haunted his life The Guardian 2012-04-07 Tim Adams, Staff Writer Director Kevin Macdonald explains how he pieced together his new film about reggae legend Bob Marley, from troubled early years in Jamaica to worldwide adulation – even after death In 2005, the director Kevin Macdonald was working in Uganda on…
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This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.
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Mixed-race People and Emancipation-Era Jamaica Emancipation: The Caribbean Experience Bulding Communities University of Miami Fall 2001 Kiara Bell This website was created by the students of History 300: Caribbean History: Emancipation and Freedom, in Fall 2001 at the University of Miami, with the assistance of the staff of Richter Library’s Archives and Special Collections. Following…
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The Planter’s Fictions: Identity, Intimacy, and the Negotiations of Power in Colonial Jamaica University of Victoria, Canada 2010 127 pages Meleisa Ono-George A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Art In the Department of History By the latter quarter of the eighteenth century, as the movement against…
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Reggae superstar Bob Marley suffered due to his mixed-race background