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: Havana
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My ethnographic data argue that despite Cuba’s colourblind racial democracy – where race “does not matter” because all races are “treated equally” – the familial narratives of ancestry actively reinforce the complex racial landscape and illustrates the superiority of whiteness that belie this ideal.
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Tender portrait of iconic ballet dancer doubles up as an exploration of fatherhood and also of the artist’s home nation Cuba – now available on VoD
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Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo’s advances; she becomes pregnant and gives…
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Misty Copeland En Pointe The Undefeated 2016-12-14 Kelley L. Carter, Senior Culture Writer Photographs by Brent Lewis Videos by Lois Nam, Senior Digital Producer America’s most famous prima ballerina heads to Cuba to represent female athleticism. (Yes, athleticism.) HAVANA, Cuba Misty Copeland is at the barre. She’s demonstrating a battement tendu to a group of…