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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Puerto Rico is often depicted as a “racial democracy” in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In “Remixing Reggaetón,” Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaetón musicians critique racial democracy’s privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging.
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‘Las Caras Lindas’: To Be Black And Puerto Rican In 2013 Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2013-05-25 Jasmine Garsd I am a black man Who was born café con leche I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited. And I got kicked out. They threw…