Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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.
about
Category: Books
-
The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil University of North Carolina Press February 1999 168 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-4766-4 Hermano Vianna Edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost…
-
A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana Louisiana State University Press April 2011 328 pages 6 x 9 inches, 21 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807137932 Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. Rachel L. Emanuel Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was…
-
Absalom, Absalom! Random House 1936 432 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-679-73218-1 William Faulkner First published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner’s ninth novel and one of his most admired. It tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830. Although his grand design is…
-
An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1983, “Three Sad Races” is a study of how Brazilian literature deals with the nation’s racial diversity themes and gives vent to the general disquietude concerning this.