Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Books
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Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free African Cherokees from the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma’s entry into…
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Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out Orlanda Frauenverlag (German) 1986 University of Massachusetts Press (English) 1992 ISBN: 0-87023-759-4 Likely out of print. Edited by May Opitz [Ayim] Katharina Oguntoye Dagmar Schultz Translated by Anne V. Adams Foreword by Audre Lorde
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These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries.
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Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Ohio State University Press May 2010 161 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1126-7 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9224-2 Shuchi Kapila, Associate Professor of English Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with…
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‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’
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“Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity” offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members.
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This book recreates the lives of the children born of relationships between French men and African women from the time France colonized much of West Africa towards the end of the 19th century, until independence in 1960.