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Flickr: Archive of LauraKina’s photostream: Critical Mixed Race Studies 2012
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Archive of LauraKina’s photostream: Taken on 3rd November 2012
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Native American Encyclopedia on Pinterest
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Massive set of Pinterest Boards – not quite 500 (Nations) but 244 at the time of this scoop and 16,127 pins
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Casta Paintings: Inventing Race Through Art : NPR
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2004
Casta Paintings: Inventing Race Through Art
Mexican Art Genre Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted a major exhibition of paintings that reflect what many upper-class Spaniards thought about race, class and skin color during the time of the Spanish colonization of Mexico in the 1700s.
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Hapa Soap Opera | Laura Kina
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“Laura Kina (born 1973) is an artist, academic and important contributor to the emergent field of Critical Mixed Race Studies. Kina was born in Riverside, CA. and raised in Poulsbo, WA.”
“Laura Kina creates art which relates to race, religion, class, family, and identity, more specifically Asian American and mixed race identity.” -Wikipedia
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ORLANDO BARRIA – Faceless Dolls (Ana Rubí and Miriam, Victims of the Devil`s Acid), 2011 | Lizzie Mariko
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“Removing the faces is an erasure of humanity, which is the first step towards allowing the atrocities” -Lizzie Mariko
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ANONYMOUS – Casta Painting, 18th Century | Lizzie Mariko
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“But people are not beetles …”.”
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“After identifying my Asian side as Japanese, it has not been uncommon to hear that, “that’s the best.” Excuse me? Apparently the impetus to rank extends to the country level as well. But it does depend on where you’re standing. When I was in Vietnam a different system was in place, one in which being part Vietnamese would have been far superior and I was met with consoling words. “Don’t worry, if you don’t tell anyone, no one will know.”
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