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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IZMIR, Turkey – Dotted along Turkey’s Aegean coastline are a smattering of villages that the country’s Afro-Turks call home.
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Michael Dixon is a California-born artist who teaches as an associate professor at Albion College and was recently awarded studio space in New York through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. His paintings direct us toward controversy, self-reflection, and an appreciation for the value of these experiences.
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Turkish descendants of African slaves begin to discover their identity The National Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2012-09-01 Piotr Zalewski No one knows how many Afro-Turks there are but, in a country that’s beginning to acknowledge its great diversity, they’re beginning to unearth their forgotten history. In 1961, Ertekin Azerturk, a Turkish businessman from Istanbul,…
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The Fate of the Afro-Turks: Nothing Left But the Colour Qantara.de Bonn, Germany 2012-08-27 Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere (Translated from the German by Michael Lawton) The Afro-Turks, whose ancestors came to the Ottoman Empire as slaves in the nineteenth century, are still struggling for recognition. Now, though, their desire to assimilate into the wider society has become greater…