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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A riveting memoir of cultural crossfire
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Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin Far, Winnifred presented herself as Japanese American and published Japanese romance novels in English under the name Onoto Watanna.
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Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States Duke University Press 2009 408 pages 19 photographs Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4440-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4426-1 Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States…
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The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) March 2005 288 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312423827; ISBN10: 0312423829 Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing Ohio University In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa’s white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid’s Immorality Act, which forbade…
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An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.
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Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family Cambridge University Press November 2011 286 pages 6 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm; 0.51kg Hardback ISBN: 9781107012615 Adobe eBook ISBN: 9781139181242 Mobipocket eBook: ISBN:9781139184861 Chandra Mallampalli, Associate Professor of History Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California How did British rule in…
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The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives Beacon Press 2012-08-21 288 pages 6″ x 9″ Cloth ISBN: 978-080706912-7 Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and African American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Donald Weise, Independent Scholar in African American history The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.…
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Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 University of Pennsylvania Press 2005 288 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-3867-9 Jill Lane, Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies New York University Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 offers a critical history of the relation between racial impersonation, national sentiment, and the emergence of an anticolonial public sphere in nineteenth-century Cuba. Through…