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: Black German Cultural Society
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Out of the approximately 95,000 U.S. Occupation babies born in Germany shortly after WWII, there were approximately 5,000 of us, Post WWII Afro-German children or so-called Negro mulatto babies, better known in the United States as Germany’s “Brown Babies.” In 1952, the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) deemed that we formed a special group,…
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Black History Month 2016: Three-star General, Lt. General Nadja West Black German Cultural Society 2016-02-05 Congratulations!!! Lt. Gen. Nadja West has been appointed as the Army’s 44th Surgeon General. With this appointment comes a promotion to lieutenant general, which makes West the Army’s first black female 3-star general as well as the highest ranking female…
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“Roots Germania” A Personal Search for Identity (Film Screening and Panel Discussion) The German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Thursday, 2011-08-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) RSVP (acceptances only) by August 12, 2011 Telephone: 202-387-3355, FAX: 202-387-6437 E-Mail: events@ghi-dc.org The Grimme award nominated documentary “Roots Germania” was directed by Mo Asumang, the…
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First Annual Black German Cultural Society Inc. Convention German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 2011-08-19 through 2011-08-21 The Black German Cultural Society, Inc. is excited to announce its First Annual Convention to be held from August 19 to 21, 2011, at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC. With the…