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: Reighan Gillam
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I argue that the main character, Junior, is subject to shifting forms of stigma that inform his attempts to straighten his curly hair and in turn inform Junior’s mother’s perception that he is gay.
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This article aims to examine changing understandings of race in Brazil, not as it transforms larger social and political structures, but as it is continuously reframed on the micro-social or everyday level. I argue that the critical practice of learning about and responding to subjugated knowledge and alternative experiences have the potential to transgress boundaries…
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Review of Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy by Samantha Nogueira Joyce TriQuarterly: a journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry from Northwestern University Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 2013-10-01 Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Telenovelas, or soap operas, are the main staple of television…
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Notes on the Racial Contours of Visual Culture in São Paulo, Brazil Flow Volume 17 (2012-12-18) Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan In this three part series of essays I will consider some of the aspects of race and visuality in Brazil. This article will lay out…