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: American Ethnologist
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The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…
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Blacks, Black Indians, Afromexicans: the Dynamics of Race, Nation, and Identity in a Mexican Moreno Community (Guerrero) American Ethnologist Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2000 pages 898–626 DOI: 10.1525/ae.2000.27.4.898 Laura A. Lewis, Professor of Anthropology James Madison University In this article, I explore identity formation in Mexico from the perspective of residents of San Nicolás…