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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Anglo-Indian Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Western Ballroom Music in Lucknow The Drama Review Volume 48, Number 4 (Winter 2004) Pages 167-182 DOI: 10.1162/1054204042442053 Dr. Bradley Shope, Assistant Professor of Music Texas A&M Universtity, Corpus Christi From the 1920s to the 1940s, Anglo-Indians relished Western popular music. For this marginalized group, this music was a way…
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121C-Mixed Race in America University of California, Santa Cruz Examines what it means to be of mixed race in America along historical, social, political, and cinematic lines. Theories on racial and identity formation applied to understanding multiracial experiences of various racial groups in the U.S.
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Creating and Contesting Community: Indians and Afromestizos in the Late-Colonial Tierra Caliente of Guerrero, Mexico Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2006 E-ISSN: 1532-5768 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2006.0030 Andrew B. Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota Late in the afternoon of January 13, 1783 the parish priest of…
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Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…
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Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process University of Nebraska Press 2004 355 pages paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8321-3 hardback ISBN: 978-0-8032-3226-6 Mark Edwin Miller, Associate Professor of History Southern Utah University The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria…
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Origin, Development and Maintenance of a Louisiana Mixed-Blood Community: The Ethnohistory of the Freejacks of the First Ward Settlement Ethnohistory Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring, 1979) pages 177-192 Darrell A. Posey Georgia State University The Fifth Ward Settlement is composed of approximately 2,500 mixed-blood (Black, While and Indian) inhabitants called “Freejacks.” The Settlement has developed…
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The Mixed Blood in Polynesia The Journal of the Polynesian Society Volume 58, Number 2 (June, 1949) pages 51-57 Ernest Beaglehole Victoria University College This paper was prepared as a contribution to a symposium on the position and problems of peoples of mixed blood in the Pacific area held during the Seventh Pacific Science Congress,…