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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Moon Honey NeWest Press September 1995 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-896300-00-9 Suzette Mayr In this modern, magical tale, Carmen and Griffin, young and white, are goofy, head-over-heels in love. When Carmen turns into a black woman, Griffin thrills at a love turned exotic. But Carmen’s transformation means trouble for Griffin’s racist mother, already struggling with…
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Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge West Virginia University Press December 2013 160 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-935978-24-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-23-7 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-25-1 PDF ISBN: 978-1-938228-64-3 Original Text by Frances Harriet Whipple (1805-1878) with Elleanor Eldridge (1794-1862) Edited by: Joycelyn K. Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and Professor of English University of Texas,…
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Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family Beacon Press 2013-10-22 264 pages 5.5″ X 8.5″ inches Cloth ISBN: 978-080701319-9 Susan Katz Miller A book on the growing number of interfaith families raising children in two religions Susan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish. Now…
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Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool Liverpool University Press March 2014 288 pages 16 black and white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 maps 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781846319679 Paperback ISBN: 9781781380000 John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History University of Liverpool Long before the arrival of the ‘Empire Windrush’ after the Second…
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Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature Duke University Press January 2014 176 pages 3 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5595-3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5581-6 Karla FC Holloway, James B. Duke Professor of English; Professor of Law; Professor of Women’s Studies Duke University In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of…
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In “A Dreadful Deceit,” award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of Antonio, Owens, and four other African Americans to illustrate the strange history of “race” in America. In truth, Jones shows, race does not exist, and the very factors that we think of as determining it— a person’s heritage or skin color—are mere pretexts…
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Dismissed as a “gaudy liar” by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to rank alongside Kit Carson, Bill Williams, Louis Vasquez, and Jim Bridger.
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Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place University of Oklahoma Press 2001 288 pages 5.25″ x 8.5″ Illustrations: 17 b&w photos Paperback ISBN: 9780806133812 Louis Owens (1948-2002), Professor of English and Native American Studies University of California, Davis In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the…
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A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand Auckland University Press 1974 400 pages 230 x 150 mm, illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9781869401214 Alan Ward First published in 1974, A Show of Justice remains the essential and definitive text on official policies towards the Māori people in the nineteenth century. Professor Ward shows…