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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African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation University of Oklahoma Press 2007 368 pages, 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 15 color illustrations, 4 maps Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138152 Paperback ISBN: 9780806168951 Gary Zellar, Assistant Professor of History University of Saskatchewan A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and…
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Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an identity as “Hindus” but also as Americans.
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Given the impossibility of purity and the co-implication of white and black, “Fire and Desire” ultimately questions the category of “race movies” itself.
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Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 University of Chicago Press 2005 224 pages 10 halftones 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780226532424 Paper ISBN: 9780226532431 E-book ISBN: 9780226532523 Pablo Mitchell, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad…
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This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.
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Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010 146 pages Hardback ISBN 978-1-4331-0803-7 Edited by Cybelle H. McFadden, Assistant Professor of French University of North Carolina, Greensboro Sandrine F. Teixidor, Assistant Professor of French Studies Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility underscores the writing of authors who foreground…
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“What is In My Blood?”: Contemporary Black Scottishness and the Work of Jackie Kay [Book Chapter] Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi B.V. 2002-09-15 328 pages ISBN-10: 9042014180 ISBN-13: 978-9042014183 pp. 1-25(25) edited by Teresa Hubal and Neil Brooks Peter Clandfield, Assistant Professor of English Studies Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada The work of the…
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You Have Given Me a Country Sarabande Books 2010-08-15 208 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 13: 978-1-932511-82-6 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University You Have Given Me a Country is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoir,…
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Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects Duke University Press August 2010 264 pages 21 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4591-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4609-8 Christina Sharpe, Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies Tufts University Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the…