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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- In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own
- Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
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Tag: Salvador da Bahia
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I was looking for that mythical interstitial place where my blackness and Latinidad could peacefully coexist. This is what I found.
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Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century Berghahn Books 2007 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84545-363-3 Paberback ISBN: ISBN 978-1-84545-711-2 Roger Sansi, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Goldsmith’s College, London One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome…