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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Category: Books
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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War University of North Carolina Press September 2012 352 pages 17 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2190-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-3812-9 David S. Cecelski AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS 2012 North Caroliniana Book Award, The North Caroliniana Society Ragan Old North State…
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A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of “Lovecraft Country” and “The Vanishing Half”
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The reality, as “An American Color” explains, is that on the surface, New Orleans did have a racial and social system that confounded the more prudent and established black-white binary at work in the social rhetoric of the British-descended states further north. But this was not unique, especially within the United States.
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The union of Native Americans and a black church institution
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In this compelling memoir of growing up different, Ijoma Mangold, today one of Germany’s best literary critics, remembers his youth in 1970s Heidelberg and the new Federal Republic, and momentous visits in early adulthood to the USA and Nigeria.
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This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.