Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas
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“We need to look deeper into our Africanness to understand ourselves,” says Dr. Marco Polo Hernández, a professor of Spanish and Afro-Hispanic studies at North Carolina Central University, in a recent phone interview. Mexico’s African heritage is not normally discussed or highlighted in conversation, or even education.
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“I don’t believe in this miscegenation business. Though all human beings are really one, various social constructs were invented to perpetuate European supremacy.” —Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas Lamont Lilly, “Afro-Latin And The Negro Common: An Interview With Dr. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas,” Racialicious, September 5, 2012. http://www.racialicious.com/2012/09/05/afro-latin-and-the-negro-common-an-interview-with-dr-marco-polo-hernandez-cuevas/.
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Afro-Latin And The Negro Common: An Interview With Dr. Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas Racialicious 2012-09-05 Lamont Lilly Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas is the Interim Chair of the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at North Carolina Central University, where his interests lie in Transatlantic and Diaspora Studies. He is the author of five books, including The Africanization of…
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The Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Edwin Mellen Press 2010 212 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-3781-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-3781-4 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This work is an Afrocentric analysis that subscribes to the notion that there is one human race of multiple ethnicities. It acknowledges…