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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Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea [new edition] Constable & Robinson 2006-11-16 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781845294977 Jane Robinson The ‘Greatest Black Briton in History’ triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent ‘doctress’ combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical…
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The mixing of races in Saint Domingue occasioned a plethora of commentaries, mostly venomous and polemical, on the causes and consequences of the colony’s multiracial order. The most famous of these commentaries, though not the most polemical, was by Moreau de Saint-Méry, the colonial jurist and historian whose writings on Saint-Domingue are still a major…
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The Buddha of Suburbia Penguin Press 1990 288 pages 5.07 x 7.83in Paperback ISBN: 9780140131680 Hanif Kureishi Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure—and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, when…
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Diverse Millennial Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs Stylus Publishing, LLC. October 2011 320 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978 1 57922 446 2 Paper ISBN: 978 1 57922 447 9 Ebook ISBN: 978 1 57922 712 8 Library Ebook ISBN: 978 1 57922 711 1 Edited by: Fred A. Bonner…
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A hysterically funny debut novel about discovering where you come from—even if you have to lie to get there.
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Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, Hybridity in American Texts University of Washington Press 2007-06-15 352 pages notes, bibliog., index 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780295988351 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0295986816; ISBN-13: 978-0295986814 eBook ISBN: 9780295800745 Edited by David S. Goldstein, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington, Bothell Audrey B. Thacker, Lecturer in…
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Race, Biraciality, and Mixed Race—in Theory Chapter in: Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism from a Neocolonial Age Rowman & Littlefield 288 pages August 1997 Size: 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8476-8447-2 eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-20172-6 pages 51-71 Lewis R. Gordon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute for the…
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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. “Eating the Black Body” examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath.