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: World War II
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The children, who came to be known by the British press as the nation’s “Brown Babies”, grew up in post-war Britain
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A true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home front
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1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset Lulu 2014-10-06 103 pages 5.83 wide x 8.26 tall 0.57 lbs. Paperback ISBN: 9781291278170 Louisa Adjoa Parker 1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset explores the stories of the black soldiers who came to Dorset to train for D-Day. Told through the eyes of…
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Fear of Small Numbers: «Brown Babies» in Postwar Italy Contemporanea Volume XVIII, Number 4, October-December 2015 pages 537-568 DOI: 10.1409/81438 Silvana Patriarca, Professor of History Fordham University: The Jesuit University of New York By drawing in an interdisciplinary fashion on a variety of different sources (some of them archives only recently made available to the…
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Professor Silvana Patriarca is a faculty member in the Fordham University History department and specializes in modern Italian history. She is currently exploring the interaction between ideas of nation and “race” and working on a book about the history of racism in post-World War II Italy. Her new book will focus on “mixed-race” children born…
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Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent University of Southern California, University Park Campus Los Angeles, California Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) Montgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340) Friday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Rising Soul is a documentary film that explores the question, “What is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their…
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Augusta Chiwy, ‘Forgotten’ Wartime Nurse, Dies at 94 The New York Times 2015-08-25 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent Augusta Chiwy was honored in 2011 for saving Americans during World War II. Credit Eric Lalmand/European Pressphoto Agency Augusta Chiwy, a Belgian nurse whose unsung bravery in saving countless American soldiers wounded in the Battle of the…
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Revealed: How Britons welcomed black soldiers during WWII, and fought alongside them against racist GIs The Telegraph 2015-12-06 Patrick Sawer, Senior Reporter This was no ordinary Saturday night punch-up outside a pub. At the height of World War Two, with the country gripped in a life or death fight for freedom against fascism and dictatorship,…
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Once unknown, story of WWII Latino Tuskegee Airman uncovered Fox News Latino 2015-11-20 Bryan Llenas, National Correspondent Among the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first African-American military air squadron which heroically fought in World War II, was a little known about Hispanic pilot named Esteban Hotesse. Born in Moca, Dominican Republic, but a New Yorker since…
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Interracial relationships and the ‘brown baby’ problem: black GIs, white women and their mixed race offspring in World War II Britain University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science Seminar Room 1 Tuesday, 2015-11-17, 17:00-18:30Z Lucy Bland, Reader in History Anglia Ruskin University For more information, click here.