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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Taken from their mothers in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, decades on a group of mixed-race elderly people are fighting the Belgian state for recognition and reparations.
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Katanga’s forgotten people FRANCE 24 2010-03-16 Marlène Rabaud Arnaud Zajtman Like many mixed-race children in Congo, they were born of a Japanese father who came to work in the mines of Katanga in south-east of the country. Today, they accuse their fathers of wanting to kill them so as not to leave behind any traces when…
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This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…
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Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Mulatto, Negro, Moreno, Mundele Kaki, Black,… The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities Chapter in: Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States Routledge 2003-09-30 240 pages Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University Percey C. Hintzen, Professor of African…
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A Silenced History from Belgian Congo: A Mixed Race History Afro-Europe International Blog 2010-06-15 Sibo Kano The Bastards in Our Colony: Hidden Stories of Belgian Metis You haven’t heard much from me lately. I was writing a book and it’s finally finished and published. The book I wrote together with Kathleen Ghequière traces back a…