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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Hybridity in Cooper, Mitchell and Randall: Erasures, Rewritings, and American Historical Mythology McGill University, Montreal Department of English August, 2004 86 pages Marie Thormodsgard Submitted in partial fulfillment for a Masters degree in English This thesis starts with an overview of the historical record tied to the birth of a new nation studied by Alexis…
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Métis, mixed-ness and music: Aboriginal-Ukrainian encounters and cultural production on the Canadian prairies The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington Canadian Studies Center Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall Wednesday, 2011-04-20 19:00 PDT (Local Time) Marcia Ostashewski, Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal intermarriages, often described as “mixed-race,” have been the…
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Journeys in Multiracial America C-SPAN Elliot Bay Book Company Seattle, Washington 2007-01-27 Elliott Lewis Journalist Elliott Lewis discusses his life as a biracial American at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. In his memior Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America, the author explains that while he was raised with two parents of mixed racial heritage…
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Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century [Book Review] H-Africa H-Net Reviews March 2004 Eric S. Ross, Coordinator, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco George Brooks’s Eurafricans in Western Africa is the sequel to his Landlords and Strangers (1993).…
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“Eurafricans in Western Africa” traces the rich social and commercial history of western Africa. The most comprehensive study to date, it begins prior to the sixteenth century when huge profits made by middlemen on trade in North African slaves, salt, gold, pepper, and numerous other commodities prompted Portuguese reconnaissance voyages along the coast of western…
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The Society for French Historical Studies 57th Annual Meeting Sponsored by The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina The Francis Marion Hotel Charleston, South Carolina 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Includes the following sessions: 1A “Representation and Commemoration in France and Its Colonies”… Black and White: Figuring the Senegalese Signares [definition in French] Thérèse De Raedt, Associate…
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Passings That Pass in America: Crossing Over and Coming Back to Tell About It The History Teacher Volume 40, Number 4 (August 2007) 32 paragraphs Donald Reid, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill TEMPORARILY PASSING as an other is a universal fantasy and a not uncommon practice. From Arab potentates dressed as…
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The Social Ontology of Race in the “Post-Racial” Era The University of Memphis Department of Philosophy 7th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Keynote Speaker Jennifer Lisa Vest, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Central Florida In the past several decades, mainstream philosophical discourse has examined the ontology of race from a…