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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An intensely dramatic true story, “Forsaking All Others” recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted—in defiance of society’s laws and conventions—to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge.
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Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970’s Boston. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can’t be sisters: Birdie appears to be white, while Cole is dark…
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Society, politics, agriculture, and mixed-race unions in a coastal Georgia planter community
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Cinderella Story: A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matter AltaMira Press February 2010 228 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-7591-1176-6 / 978-0-7591-1176-9 James Haywood Rolling, Jr., Associate Professor of Art Education Syracuse University Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the…
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Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900 Duke University Press 2010 296 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4745-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4764-4 Vanita Seth, Associate Professor of Politics University of California, Santa Cruz Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of…
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“Alien Land” is the passionate and haunting story of a light-skinned black man who can pass as white in mid-twentieth-century America.