Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Indiana University Press
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Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood Indiana University Press 2014-08-01 286 pages 31 b&w illus. 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-253-01319-4 Keren R. McGinity, Author-Educator Love & Tradition: intermarriage insights for a Jewish future When American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are “lost” to the Jewish religion. In…
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“That the Blood Stay Pure” traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.
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The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa Indiana University Press 2013-03-18 296 pages 9 b&w illustrations, 5 maps 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-00674-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00673-8 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-0-253-00705-6 Hilary Jones, Assistant Professor of History University of Maryland, College Park The Métis of Senegal is a history of…
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The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism Indiana University Press 2007-05-22 320 pages 22 b&w photos 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-21927-5; Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-34902-6 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian…
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Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks,…
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“Portuguese” Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
“Portuguese” Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries Indiana University Press 2002-11-14 224 pages 32 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 index 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN: 978-0-253-21552-9 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with…
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Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?