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: Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria
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I received more than a few raised eyebrows after describing the recent trip my wife and I took to attend the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey’s Second Annual Convention at Barnard College in New York. If you are tempted to believe that being both Black and German is an oxymoron; think again.
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Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention What is the Black German Experience? History, Performance Popular & Visual Cultures Barnard College, Columbia University New York, New York 2012-08-10 through 2012-08-11 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey…
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Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012 Annual Convention: Call for Papers Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey 2012-01-31 Building on the success of the inaugural 2011 conference, the second annual convention of the Black German Cultural Society of New Jersey (BGCSNJ) will be held at Barnard College in New York City on…
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“Germany’s ‘Brown Babies’ Must Be Helped! Will You?”: U.S. Adoption Plans for Afro-German Children, 1950-1955 Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring 2003) pages 342-362 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0052 E-ISSN: 1080-6512 Print ISSN: 0161-2492 Yara-Colette Lemke Muniz de Faria This essay explores the debate that arose around the adoption of Black German children by African American parents and…