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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This year’s November celebration of African culture in Argentina is dedicated to the memory of Maria Magdalena Lamadrid — “La Pocha” — an Afro-Argentine activist who died in September. In 2002, the fifth-generation Afro-Argentine was kept from leaving the country by a customs officer who insisted there are no Black Argentines and asserted her passport…
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“Imperial Educación” examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries’ citizens.
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The 2010 census recorded about 150,000 people of African descent in Argentina, a nation of 45 million, but activists estimate the true figure is closer to 2 million following a surge of immigration — and because many Argentines have forgotten or ignore African ancestry.
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Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic: Race and Citizenship, 1780–1850 Routledge 2020-08-07 252 pages 5 b/w Illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780367494926 eBook ISBN: 9781003046813 Federica Morelli, Associate Professor of History of the Americas University of Turin, Turin, Italy This book grapples with the important contemporary question of the boundaries of citizenship and access to…
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Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina’s Myth of Black Disappearance Global Urban History 2016-12-19 Erika Edwards, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Charlotte Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina’s first president (1826-27) was nicknamed “Doctor Chocolate.” Painting by Mirta Toledo, 2013 It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I,…
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Born to an Ethiopian mother and a German father, Tigist Selam enjoyed the diverse experience of growing up in Nigeria, Argentina, and foremost Germany. In an article featured in the book “One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race“, Tigist explores the complexities of racial classifications, and the different ways that people live and experience Blackness.
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A century of European immigration brought with it a comprehensive effort to erase the country’s multiracial past. Only recently has that been reversed.
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The presence of Afro-Argentines had a significant and irrefutable effect on Argentine culture, although their origins have been for the most part erased. For instance, tango— ironically one of Argentina’s most well-known cultural contributions around the world— was a direct result of African influence.
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Erika Denise Edward’s new book, is both innovative as well as firmly grounded in the rich tradition of scholarship that illuminates the manifold processes, policies, sites, and situations in which notions of whiteness were negotiated, reified, and contested across the New World.