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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Jenifer L. Bratter, an associate sociology professor at Rice University who has studied multiracialism, said that as long as race continued to affect where people live, how much money they make and how they are treated, then multiracial families would be met with double-takes. “Unless we solve those issues of inequality in other areas, interracial…
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The melungeons: A mystery people of east Tennessee Ethnos Volume 29, Issue 1-2 (1964) pages 43-48 DOI: 10.1080/00141844.1964.9980946 Paul G. Brewster Cookeville, Tennessee, USA The United States has long been called, and with some justification, “the melting-pot of nations” and the intermarriage of members of different races is a commonplace. The children born to such…
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I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans University of New Orleans 2009-05-15 62 pages Nikki Dugar A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History…
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Bill John Baker named official winner in Cherokee chief election Tusla World 2011-10-13 Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, World Correspondent TAHLEQUAH – Bill John Baker is now officially principal chief-elect of the Cherokee Nation. About 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, the Cherokee Nation Election Commission certified the results from the tribe’s special election. The certified results show Baker defeating former…
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Savage Half-Breed, French Canadian or White US Citizen? Louis Riel and US Perceptions of Nation and Civilisation National Identities Volume 7, Issue 4, 2005 pages 369-388 DOI: 10.1080/14608940500334390 Lauren L. Basson, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Ben-Gurion University, Israel Louis Riel was the late nineteenth-century leader of the Métis, an indigenous, North American people…
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Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, “In/visible Sight” examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonisation in southern New Zealand.
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Defending Home and Hearth: Walter White Recalls the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot Web Source: History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web Walter White, A Man Called White 1948; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969 pages 5–12 Walter White (1893-1955) The riots that broke out between 1898 and 1906 were part of a pattern…