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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Walter Tull – one of England’s first black professional footballers – should be awarded a Military Cross 100 years after his death, says Tottenham MP David Lammy.
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The ideology of racial democracy cast a long shadow over twentieth-century race relations in Brazil. First popularized by influential Brazilian scholar Gilberto Freyre, this theory presumed a level racial playing field that was paradoxically dependent on the whitening of the populace. Rather than helping to drive the country toward a multiracial future, racial democracy shrouded…
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Soccer Led Me To Embrace Every Part Of My Multiracial Heritage The Huffington Post 2017-01-06 Geneva Abdul, Publicist & Writer Toronto, Ontario, Canada Born from the marrying of British and Trinidadian cultures, I defined my cultural identity through soccer when I decided to play for Trinidad and Tobago at the age of 14. Growing up,…
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The pioneer black manager who became Don Revie’s ‘superspy’ The Telegraph 2016-10-20 Jim White Tony Collins became England’s first black manager at Rochdale in 1960 Credit: Jon Super for The Telegraph When he managed Rochdale back in the early Sixties, Tony Collins earned £1,500 a year. Fifty-four years on, as he sits reminiscing in a…
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Tony Collins, Football Master Spy Book Guild Publishing Ltd 2016-10-27 270 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781910878934 Quentin Cope & Sarita Collins The English Football League’s First Black Manager This is the story of the English football league’s first black manager. Tony Collins was a young man, born into disadvantaged circumstances, in a time period between two…
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Focus on world’s first black football star The Voice 2016-10-16 Poppy Brady Dr Tony Talburt decided that a book on Guyanese-born footballer Watson was seriously overdue, so he set about researching the background of this exceptional pioneer of the beautiful game HE WAS the world’s first black football superstar, but the name Andrew Watson is…
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Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of Andrew Watson so remarkable.
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How Soccer Helped Brazil Embrace Its Racial Diversity Zócalo Public Square KCRW Santa Monica, California 2016-04-06 Joshua Nadel, Associate Professor of History North Carolina Central University Brazil—as two recent book titles point out, and almost any kid kicking a ball anywhere in the world can tell you—is the country of soccer. While the modern sport’s…
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Kang Soo-il’s drugs ban ruins inspirational tale for mixed-race Koreans The Guardian 2015-07-30 John Duerden, Asian football correspondent The striker with an American GI father was on the verge of a dream debut for South Korea after a lifetime struggle against discrimination when he tested positive for an anabolic steroid he blamed on moustache-growing cream…