Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: New African

Why Do You Call Yourself Black And African?

2013-11-16

A little over a year ago I received an email with the subject line “Ok I wonder why you call yourself ‘black’ and ‘African’” from a self-described longtime New African reader. Even if subsequent emails have been less direct in their articulation of the same underlying sentiment, they all point in a similar direction: some…
The Origins of Mixed Race Populations

2012-05-18

The Origins of Mixed Race Populations New African January 2005 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts While rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora’s mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray. In the…
History’s most sordid cover-up

2010-11-15

History’s most sordid cover-up New African February 2004 Stella Orakwue The history of the former European colonies’ mixed-race populations is one of the world’s biggest hidden scandals. How did these populations come about? We did not miraculously or biblically produce mixed-race babies from thin air. Most of the black women were raped… …Her children come…