Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Books
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Apart from a handful of exotic–and almost completely unreliable–tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America–the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame.
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In “Slavery Unseen,” Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves.
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Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not such harmony.
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By tracing the evolution of the categories the United States used to count and classify its population from 1790 to 1940, Paul Schor shows that, far from being simply a reflection of society or a mere instrument of power, censuses are actually complex negotiations between the state, experts, and the population itself.
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past Pantheon 2018-03-27 368 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781101870327 Ebook ISBN: 9781101870334 David Reich, Professor of Genetics Harvard Medical School also, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute David Reich describes how the revolution in the ability to sequence ancient DNA…
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Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2016, this is a very curious tale indeed . . .
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This book tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s through the country’s first general labor strikes in the 1910s.
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An eloquent new Caribbean literary voice reveals the hidden trauma and fierce resilience of one Trinidadian family.