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: Kenneth Aslakson
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No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people…
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Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans’ Three-Caste Society, 1791-1812 University of Texas, Austin May 2007 219 pages Kenneth Randolph Aslakson, Assistant Professor of History Union College, Schenectady, New York Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment…