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: Jennifer Roth-Gordon
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Brazil is both proud of its history promoting miscegenation and racial mixture and deeply ashamed of its status as a “mongrel” nation that lacks the culture, civilization, and modernity associated with racial whiteness. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, individuals, families, and nation-states have long struggled to acquire and display whiteness, harboring both implicit and…
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My book seeks to explain the “comfortable racial contradiction” that surrounds Rio residents with signs of blackness and whiteness but discourages them from describing what they see in racial terms. It’s not a contradiction that is “comfortable” for all, but I argue that this contradiction is surprisingly easy to live within, even as it may…
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“Race and the Brazilian Body” weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil’s “comfortable racial contradiction,” where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country’s history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict.
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Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race Oxford University Press 2016-10-31 376 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780190625696 Edited by: H. Samy Alim, Professor of Education; Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics (by courtesy) Stanford University John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities Stanford University Arnetha F. Ball,…