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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The semantics of ‘mestizo’ GMA News Online 2012-07-12 Amanda Lago “What’s your mix?” clothing brand Bayo asked Filipina women in its heavily-lampooned ad campaign from last month. The ad drew criticism for excluding 100-percent Filipinos, and glorifying the “50-precent Filipina” instead, thereby feeding the beauty industry’s obsession with so-called mestizas. But as it turns out,…
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Instituto Cervantes holds forum on genetic diversity in the Philippines GMA News Online Quezon City, Philippines 2012-07-24 On Tuesday, July 24, Instituto Cervantes presents “Todos somos mestizos: A Topogenetic Atlas of the Philippines,” a forum on the genetic make-up of Filipinos all over the archipelago. The talk will be led by Filipino anthropologist Fernando Zialcita,…