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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I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Bryce Henson who recently defended his dissertation Rediasporizing Bahia: The Lived Experiences of Blackness and the Cultural Politics of Bahian Hip-Hop at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In the following interview, which has been edited for clarity, structure, and brevity,…
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The aesthetic escape hatch: carnaval, blocos afro and the mutations of baianidade under the signs of globalisation and re-Africanisation Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research Volume 5, Issue 2, 1999 pages 65-98 DOI: 10.1080/13260219.1999.10431798 Piers Armstrong Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil This article examines the notion of baianidade, the cultural cosmovision traditionally associated with…
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Intimacy and Inequality: Manumission and Miscegenation in Nineteenth-Century Bahia (1830-1888) University of Nottingham April 2010 428 pages Jane-Marie Collins Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Hispanic and Latin American Studies This thesis proposes a new paradigm for understanding the historical roots of the myth of racial democracy…