Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Melissa Blanco Borelli
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“She is Cuba: A Genealogy of the Mulata Body” traces the history of the Cuban mulata and her association with hips, sensuality and popular dance. It examines how the mulata choreographs her racialised identity through her hips and enacts an embodied theory called hip(g)nosis
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“¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954)
“¿Y ahora qué vas a hacer, mulata?”: Hip choreographies in the Mexican cabaretera film Mulata (1954) Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory Volume 18, Issue 3, November 2008 Special Issue: Sensualidades: Sounds and Movement in Latina/o Culture pages 215-233 DOI: 10.1080/07407700802495951 Melissa Blanco Borelli, Lecturer of Dance Studies University of Surrey This essay…
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This article examines the filmic representations of the mulatta body in the films “Sparkle” (1976), “Flashdance” (1983) and “Honey” (2003). More specifically, this article seeks to unravel how the Hollywood filmic apparatus engages with signifiers of raced sexuality and hierarchies of dance styles to enforce and reify mythic narratives about dance, dancing raced bodies and…