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: Afro-Mexicans
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“Sovereign Joy” explores the performance of festive black kings and queens among Afro-Mexicans between 1539 and 1640.
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A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives
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In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. “Finding Afro-Mexico” reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity.
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Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
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A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans
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According to Variety, this is the first fictional film about Afro-Mexicans.
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“We need to look deeper into our Africanness to understand ourselves,” says Dr. Marco Polo Hernández, a professor of Spanish and Afro-Hispanic studies at North Carolina Central University, in a recent phone interview. Mexico’s African heritage is not normally discussed or highlighted in conversation, or even education.
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“México’s Nobodies” examines two key figures in Mexican history that have remained anonymous despite their proliferation in the arts: the soldadera and the figure of the mulata.