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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At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Płaszów,” Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her…
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Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: Erinnerungen eines Afro-Deutschen [Being German and also Being Black: Memoirs of an Afro-German] Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag November 2013 200 pages Hardback ISBN: ISBN 978-3-423-26005-3 ePub ISBN: 978-3-423-42033-4 eBook ISBN: 978-3-423-42034-1 Theodor Michael Theodor Michaels Autobiografie ist so aberwitzig, dass sie erfunden sein könnte, wenn sie nicht allzu wahr wäre. Er entfaltet…
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Documentary ‘Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story’ Tells Untold Stories of Bi-Racial World War II Era Children The AFRO 2014-01-15 Maria Adebola Emmy-winning journalist Regina Griffin was inspired to tell a story and that’s how her film, Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story was born. A family friend, entrepreneur Doris McMillon, had told stories about growing up…
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Imagining Ourselves: What Does it Mean to be Part of the African Diaspora? Think Africa Press 2013-11-21 Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Research Fellow IRIS of the École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Tina Campt talks to Think Africa Press about black European subjectivities, the US’ dominance in diaspora studies, and how photographs tell us more…
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Rheinland 2013 Mokoari Street Productions Berlin, Germany Written and directed by Lemohang J. Mosese Produced by Hannah Stockmann, Julius B. Franklin & Christian Wagner During the first World War the French government forced African men—many coming from Senegal or Cameroon —from their colonies to fight for the French army in the Rheinland. In 1919, there…
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Germany elects its first two black MPs in breakthrough hailed as ‘historic’ The Telegraph 2013-09-23 Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Berlin—Karamba Diaby and Charles Huber were elected for rival Left and Right political factions in Sunday’s general election to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. Both have Senegalese backgrounds but followed very different paths into politics… …Mr…
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UMASS Recognizes Growing Interdisciplinary Study of Black Germans in Academia Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2013-08-12 Jamal Watson AMHERST, Mass.—In an effort to recognize a relatively young academic discipline that many in the academy have never heard of before, nearly a hundred students and scholars gathered at Amherst College over the weekend to discuss their…
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Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story Regina Griffin Films, Inc. 2011 102 minutes color United States Regina Griffin, Director Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story reveals the tragic lives of biracial, bicultural children, unwanted, ignored and forgotten by enemy nations. Imagine being born in a place and time where racism and hatred run rampant, and your mother…
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Blackness in Germany: Locating “Race” in Johannes Schaaf’s 1986 Film Adaptation of Michael Ende’s Fantasy Novel Momo Focus on German Studies Volume 19 (2012) pages 133-148 Benjamin Nickl Georgetown University Michael Ende’s 1973 fantasy novel, Momo first became popular in West Germany. Decades later, the book remained successful in the unified Republic. Intended as a…