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: Dominican Republic
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Dominican women being seen—and seeing themselves—in popular culture
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Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong Harper Perennial (an imprint of Harper Collins) 2021-02-23 304 pages 5x8in Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780063009486 E-book ISBN: 9780063009493 Audiobook ISBN: 9780063009509 Georgina Lawton Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were…
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I was looking for that mythical interstitial place where my blackness and Latinidad could peacefully coexist. This is what I found.
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It never matters. The second question is, “Wait, you’re Dominican? What barrio is your mom from?” I tell them the barrio and the cross-streets, and they get vexed.
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The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola Rutgers University Press November 2016 200 pages 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 maps, 8 tables 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-8448-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-8447-8 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-8450-8 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-8449-2 Milagros Ricourt, Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies…
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“What? Black people in the Dominican Republic?” Yes amig@*, there are Black Dominican people whose ancestors descend from the African motherland. However, the question is not so much, “Are there Black people in the Dominican Republic?” as it is “Are Dominican people Black?”