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: The Conversation
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America’s first vampire was Black and revolutionary – it’s time to remember him The Conversation 2020-10-30 Sam George, Associate Professor of Research University of Hertfordshire The Black Vampyre is an early literary example of an argument for emancipation of slaves. Thomas Nast/Harper’s Weekly/The Met In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine,…
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Yet government’s ambivalence towards the “brown babies” remained. The children were not white and therefore not truly “British”, since Britishness assumed whiteness. In addition, a mixed-race GI baby stood out as a visual marker of the black soldier having indeed, as the comedian Tommy Trinder was well-known for quipping, been “over-paid, over-fed, over-sexed and over-here”.…
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Today, those records and others live on in the Slave Societies Digital Archive. This archive, which I launched in 2003, now holds approximately 600,000 images dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Since its creation, the archive has led to new insights into African populations in the Americas.
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Contrary to some popular beliefs, today’s British population does not descend from one Anglo-Saxon heritage.
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We should abandon attempts to save the category of race. There is no good way to make sense of the category from a biological or a social perspective. There are no races, only groups misunderstood as races: racialised groups. Adam Hochman, “Racism is real, race is not: a philosopher’s perspective,” The Conversation, August 31, 2017.…
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Loving v. Virginia: Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a landmark civil rights milestone The Conversation 2017-06-07 Caty Borum Chattoo , Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact, American University School of Communication American University, Washington, D.C. Mildred and Richard Loving in 1965. AP Photo Fifty years ago, on June…
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But it was Green’s last point, mentioned almost as an aside – “And of course, Steph is light-skinned so [players] want to make him out to be soft” – that got the most attention.
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She recently visited South Africa to discuss non-racialism, but received resistance against her self-identification as “trans-black” and her claim to an authentic, internal black identity. This isn’t surprising given the brutality of the country’s racial past.