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: Nicaragua
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“Historically, these ideas serve to deny the presence of Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants. To say that they no longer exist, that they have been absorbed by the process of mestizaje,” says [Juliet] Hooker, who experienced this as a girl when her family moved from the Afro-Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, where she grew up, to its…
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Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967 Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections Columbia Center for Oral History Columbia University, New York, New York Digitized 2010 (Originally recorded in 1967) DOI: 10.7916/d8-cpb1-1692 Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) interviewed by William R. Keylor (1944-). Listen to the interview here.
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Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong Harper Perennial (an imprint of Harper Collins) 2021-02-23 304 pages 5x8in Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780063009486 E-book ISBN: 9780063009493 Audiobook ISBN: 9780063009509 Georgina Lawton Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were…
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A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans Miami Herald 2007-06-10 through 2007-06-24 In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garffuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not…
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Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community University of Texas Press August 1998 320 pages ISBN-10: 0292728190; ISBN-13: 978-0292728196 Edmund Gordon, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin This book is out of print. Based on a decade the author spent among the African-Caribbean “Creole” people on Nicaragua’s southern Caribbean coast, Disparate…