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: Belize
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When West Africans on their way to the New World’s slave markets escaped in 1635, they intermarried with Caribbean islanders to create a new and distinct culture.
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Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize Rutgers University Press 2018-11-01 226 pages 24 b&w images 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8135-9698-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-9699-0 EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8135-9700-3 MobiPocket ISBN: 978-0-8135-9701-0 PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-9702-7 Melissa A. Johnson, Professor of Anthropology Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their…
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Ethnic, Multi-Ethnic, and Nationalist Identity in Belize: Voices of Belizean Children Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2001) Theme: International Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity Sarah Woodbury Haug This paper discusses ethnicity and nationalism in children in the rural community of Punta Gorda, Belize. Ethnicity and nationalism are important aspects of…
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Ethnicity and Ethnically “Mixed” Identity in Belize: A Study of Primary School-Age Children Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 29, Issue 1 (March 1998) pages 44–67 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.1998.29.1.44 Sarah Woodbury Haug This article focuses on the ehtnic identity of children in Belize. Belizean nationalism, as taught in the primary schools, is both pan-ethnic and multiethnic. However,…