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 S. Alford
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The island has a long history of encouraging residents to identify as white, but there are growing efforts to raise awareness about racism.
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In the United States, racial segregation enforced strict political and social barriers between Blacks and whites long after slavery. (“One drop” of African blood designated you as “Black,” no matter what your complexion or ethnicity.) But in Puerto Rico and other parts of Latin America where racial mixing was common, there are numerous ways to…
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REVISTA ÉTNICA shines a spotlight on Afro-Latino culture on the island.
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I rarely see Afro-Latinas on television. Online, it’s a different story.