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: Natasha Pravaz
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Imagining Brazil: Seduction, Samba Canadian Woman Studies / Les Caheiers de la Femme Volume 20, Number 2 (2000) pages 48-56 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada En utilisant des paroles de chants rythmés sur la samba et d‘autre matériel ethnographique, l‘auteure detecte la presence du mulâtre et de propos racistes dans…
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Performing Mulata-ness: The Politics of Cultural Authenticity and Sexuality among Carioca Samba Dancers Latin American Perspectives Volume 39, Number 2 (March 2012) pages 113-133 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X11430049 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada In Rio de Janeiro, mulatas—brown-skinned women of mixed racial descent who dance the samba in Carnival parades…
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The tan from Ipanema: Freyre, Morenidade, and the cult of the body in Rio De Janeiro Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies October 2009 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Art Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada She says she has brown skin, and a feverish body And inside the chest, love of Brazil…
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Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio’s Carnaval? Samba, Mulatas and Modernity Visual Anthropology Volume 21, Issue 2 (2008) pages 95-111 DOI: 10.1080/08949460701688775 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada This article chronicles the historical normalization of carnaval parades and samba performances in Rio de Janeiro, by looking at the progressive…