Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: India
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Merle Oberon, a pick for best actress in 1936, was born in Bombay and spent her career passing for white
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A startling new history of a community’s struggle to be heard as Empire waned in India, with echoes for all those of mixed heritage.
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Merle Oberon, a Hollywood star of the black and white era, is a forgotten icon in India, the country of her birth.
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“The Gap-Toothed Banister – A Tale of Anglo-India” is a close, compassionate look by Juliette Banerjee, an Anglo-Indian, at her community facing the challenges of change. It portrays with clarity the lives of Anglo-Indians in Calcutta during the 60s and 70s.
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Anglo-Indians are a mixed-race, Christian and Anglophone minority community which arose in India during the long period of European colonialism. An often neglected part of the British ‘Raj’, their presence complicates the traditional binary through which British imperialism in South Asia is viewed – of ruler and ruled, coloniser and colonised.
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The history of classifying South Asians in the United States is fraught. For most of the 20th century, the census and courts did not consider South Asians as a distinct race, in part because their numbers were negligible. In 1970, the US census decided South Asians were white.
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The Book reveals that small though it be, the Anglo Indians are a community with a great heritage.
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Tall, pale and handsome: why more Asian men are using skin-whitening products The Conversation 2016-11-24 Gideon Lasco, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Anthropology Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) University of Amsterdam Jose, 19, is a college student in Puerto Princesa City, Philippines. On a regular school day, after he wakes up, he takes a…