Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Alessandro de’ Medici
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The Black Prince of Florence: A Medici Mystery University of York Room K/133, King’s Manor York, United Kingdom Tuesday, 2016-10-18, 19:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Month Lecture Catherine Fletcher is a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe. Her first book, The Divorce of Henry VIII, was published in 2012 and brought to life…
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A look at historical multiracial families through the House of Medici OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2016-09-04 Catherine Fletcher Catherine Fletcher is author of The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. The Medici, rulers of Renaissance Florence, are not the most obvious…
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The first-ever biography of Alessandro de’ Medici, arguably the first black head of state
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Africans in Medieval & Renaissance Art: Duke Alessandro de’ Medici Victoria and Albert Museum London, England, United Kingdom Portrait of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici, after Jacopo da Pontormo, Florence, Italy, about 1550. Museum no. CAI.171. Ionides Bequest Both of the objects highlighted here feature Alessandro de’ Medici (1511-37), the first Duke of Florence. It is…
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New Generation Thinkers: The Moor of Florence – A Medici Mystery Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 2015-11-09 2015 Festival, The Free Thinking Essay For over 400 years it’s been claimed that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race, his mother a slave of African descent. Catherine Fletcher of Swansea University asks if this…
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Notable Black and Mixed Race men in Renaissance Europe Bino & Fino: Embracing My Child’s Black African Identity 2015-07-23 Maria Tumolo We are thrilled to bring you our very first guest post from children’s author Maria Tumolo. She is also writes a blog called Tiger Tales which explores parenting as an expat mixed heritage family.…
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Who Was the 1st Black Duke? The Root 2013-05-13 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University Porträt des Alessandro de Medici by Pontormo, 1534-1535 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Meet the scion of a legendary Italian dynasty. Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of…