Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Synopsis: This topical short documentary features interviews with multiethnic and multiracial youth living in Catalonia, Spain, who talk about their mixed heritage and its meaning for them, their identity and sense of belonging, and their experiences of discrimination and agency. Through these narratives, MIXED VOICES reveals that the positive, empowering experiences of mixedness—a growing reality…
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Every 16th century Spanish expedition to Florida included Africans, both free and enslaved.
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Free People of Color in the Spanish Atlantic: Race and Citizenship, 1780–1850 Routledge 2020-08-07 252 pages 5 b/w Illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780367494926 eBook ISBN: 9781003046813 Federica Morelli, Associate Professor of History of the Americas University of Turin, Turin, Italy This book grapples with the important contemporary question of the boundaries of citizenship and access to…
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A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans
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This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and…