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: Bolivia
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For Black History Month, Catherine Walsh, professor of Afro-Andean Studies at the University Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, shares with teleSUR her views about the achievements and challenges for the construction of an Afro-descendent consciousness in Latin America.
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An African King in Bolivia The New York Times 2015-11-17 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist; Lens Blog Co-Editor King Don Julio Pinedo being helped by his son, Rolando Pinedo, the prince, into a royal cloak. Queen Angelica oversees the details of her husband’s royal dress. Don Julio is shy and does not feel comfortable dressing…
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Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan University Of Hawai‘i Press May 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3344-2 Taku Suzuki, Assistant Professor of International Studies Denison University, Granville, Ohio Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial…
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Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia University of Pittsburgh Press May 2004 240 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822942276 Javier C. Sanjinés, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies University of Michigan Mestizaje refers to the process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixture that is part of cultural identity in Latin America.…