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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The Aborigines Act, 1911 [Australia] 1911-12-07 Number 1048 Source: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies An Act to make provision for the better Protection and Control of the Aboriginal and Half-caste Inhabitants of the State of South Australia. This Act may be cited as ‘‘ The Aborigines Act, 1911.” The Ordinance No.…
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Wheeler traces the emergence of skin color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment’s scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety.
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Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860 University of New Orleans 2010-05-14 58 pages Frank Joseph Lovato 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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People Can Claim One or More Races On Federal Forms The New York Times 1997-10-30 Steven A. Holmes The Clinton Administration today adopted new rules for listing racial and ethnic makeup on Federal forms, allowing people for the first time to identify themselves as members of more than one race. The change, which could affect…
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Born a Half-Caste Aboriginal Studies Press 1990 (revised edition) 78 pages 210 x1 50mm, b/w illus Paperback ISBN: 9780855751609 Margaret (Marnie) Kennedy (1919–1985) Marnie Kennedy was born in 1919 ‘on the bank of Coppermine Creek’. Her story takes us from her birthplace in Western Queensland, to Palm Island where she grew up ‘under the Act’,…
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Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal people and the Australian Nation Aboriginal Studies Press September 2011 288 pages 230 x 152mm; b/w Illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780855757793 Russell McGregor, Associate Professor of History James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of…
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Banneker’s family tree still bears rich fruit The Baltimore Sun 2006-06-12 Gregory Kane And so Molly Welsh, an Englishwoman sentenced to indentured servitude in 17th-century Maryland, wed an African slave named Bannaka. And they begat four daughters, one of whom was named Mary. And Mary wed a slave named Robert, who took her last name,…
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Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture Volume 4, Number 1 (2004) ISSN 1492-7810 Hsu-Ming Teo, Senior Lecturer and Head of Modern History Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the Raj. It argues that these love stories…