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: Isar P. Godreau
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Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico by Ileana Rodríguez-Silva (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 655-657 Isar Godreau, Researcher Interdisciplinary Research Institute University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., Silencing Race: Disentangling Blackness, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico (London, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,…
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Ideas of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture in a Puerto Rican barrio
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Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico
Changing Space, Making Race: Distance, Nostalgia, and the Folklorization of Blackness in Puerto Rico Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Volume 9, Issue 3, 2002 pages 281-304 DOI: 10.1080/10702890213969 Isar Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey In this article, I critique some of the discursive terms in which blackness is…
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The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…