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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Mulatto"”.
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Magic Mulatto: Barack Obama's Biracial Body and Race Performance
This thesis explores the ways President Barack Obama navigates his biracial identity through race performances in his discourse. Born to a Kenyan father and European mother, Obama was in a unique position to speak on racial issues, especially since occurrences of racial violence began to debunk the …
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Tango Mulatto: The Untold Afro-Argentine History of Tango, 1800s-1900s
During the time of nation-building Argentina constructed a Europeanized identity that rejected nonwhite and particularly African cultures. Tango is likely a synthesis of candombe, a dance developed from the African nations in the River Plate region and from milonga which stemmed from the payada …
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Performing Blackness in a Mulatto Society: Negotiating Racial Identity through Music in the Dominican Republic
<p>My dissertation analyzes Dominican racial and ethnic identity through an examination of music and music cultures. Previous studies of Dominican identity have focused primarily on the racialized invention of the Dominican nation as white, or non-black, often centering on the building of Dominican …
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The Impact of the Media on Biracial Identity Formation
… individuals have been portrayed as the tragic "mulatto" because of their confused racial background. In addition, mulatto women have been stereotyped as exotic and sexual objects. A content analysis was used to investigate how the media presents biracial identity. Only movies with black/white …
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Toward a Creole Christ : a theology of language and Christian hybridity.
… of the "Black Christ" through an appeal to a "Mulatto Christ." In this dissertation, I evaluate the success of this appeal. I begin by framing the conversation through a review of Black Liberation Theology. I next give an account of the two primary sources utilized by Carter and Bantum in their …
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Edgardo Rodriguez Julia: Peregrinaciones, Heroes Y Tumbas en La Formacion De La Nacion Puertorriquena
… of race. Collectively these works resurrect the mulatto as a central figure in the formation of contemporary Puerto Rican identity.
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Impact of Thymectomy on the Peripheral T Cell Pool in the Context of SIV Infection
… in the juvenile rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatto) and to assess the significance of thymic output in the context of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection. To this end, we have studied the impact of surgical thymectomy on the peripheral T cell pool in a cohort of macaques. We …
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Ethnic Vision and Narrative Style: A Psychostylistic Analysis of Selected Works of Ramon Diaz Sanchez (Venezuela)
… conflicts spring from the fact that he is mulatto. Other conclusions arrived at indicate that D(')iaz Sanchez perceives of reality as being basically bi-polar, yet interdependent, and that phenomena that appear mutually exclusive can in fact be integrated and reconciled. This view of …
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Incidence of tuberculous infection among the native inhabitants of the gold coast and its bearing on the question of immunity
… particular significance to the observation that Mulattoes are in this respect intermediate between whites and blacks. He points out that Mulattoes and blacks live under practically identical environmental conditions, and he concludes that the Mulatto is more resistant because the White race has …
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Beyond Biracial: The Complexity of Identity Construction for Women with One Black and One White Parent
… to labels such as Black and White, Black, mulatto, biracial, mixed, or other, the central question is what do these women wish to call themselves. At the core of this qualitative study is the exploration of whether a dialogic approach can help create the conditions for the construction of a …
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A Call for Liberation: Aleijadinho's 'Prophets' as Capoeiristas
… influence of capoeira in the Prophets. Being a mulatto, Aleijadinho's ancestral connections to the Afro-Brazilian community likely contributed to the sculptor's exposure to capoeira. In addition, the rise and fall of the rebel group, "The Inconfidência Mineira" took place in Aleijadinho's home …
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
… among those authors who abandoned the "tragic mulatto," a near-white hero or heroine, as a major motif of literature by black writers, and he moved toward a more realistic depiction of black life. That is, Thurman made concerted efforts to break away from the themes of color and class …
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The "Re-Latinization" of New Orleans in the Twentieth Century: Multiple Waves of Hispanic Migration
Latin Americans immigrating to New Orleans during the Jim Crow period found New Orleans to be a place where they could assimilate. Several factors produced a tolerant climate for Latin Americans. These included New Orleanians' tolerant attitude, which was possible since Latin Americans arrived in …
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CHAMELEON BOY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LITERARY CRITIQUE OF BIRACIAL SUBJECTS IN A RACIALIZED SOCIETY
<p>In American society, race is a determining factor when realizing a salient identity. Social engagements, relationships, and the perception has of one’s self are all effected and choreographed by race. Deeply ingrained within our social structure race aims to categorize humanity into easily …
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Skin Color and Social Practice: The Problem of Race and Class Among New Orleans Creoles and Across the South, 1718-1862
The purpose of this study is to uncover the story of the New Orleans Creoles of color—the mixed-race, francophone middle class of New Orleans and the surrounding area before the Civil War. It shows how the people who became the New Orleans Creoles of color worked endlessly, over three colonial and …
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The Sociopolitical Construction Of Race And Literary Representations Of The Biracial Subject
Twentieth-century American literature incorporates interracial and biracial themes that bring to light the often unnamed and unrecognized biracial identities of many Americans. Unfortunately, despite the potential value for a deeper understanding of the construction of race, these themes have …
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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
… a city that had the highest population of mulattoes outside the South before the Civil War. This migration occurred during the rising surveillance of people of African descent in the South during the 1830s and the concurrent rise of cotton as a premier crop, two factors that figured greatly …
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Ancestralidade como fator de risco para hipotireoidismo: estudo da coorte ELSA-BRASIL
Introduction– Genomic ancestry refers to the genetic relationship between an individual and their ancestors, from whom they biologically descend. The self-reported ancestry of the Brazilian population is subject to important genomic divergence and there are sensitive markers capable of stratifying …