Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Books
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A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.
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“We Are Who We Say We Are” provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.
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A ground-breaking, seminal work, “Black Tudors” challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was all but inevitable and forces us to re-examine the seventeenth century to determine what caused perceptions to change so radically.
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The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law’s Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic Chapter in: India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s Palgrave Macmillan pages 75-108 Published online 2017-11-11 Online ISBN: 978-3-319-62334-4 Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62333-7 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62334-4_3 Rosemarie Zagarri, Professor of History George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Thomas Law was a high-ranking administrator with the British…
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“Race and the Brazilian Body” weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil’s “comfortable racial contradiction,” where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country’s history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict.
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Riveting trials that exposed conflicting attitudes toward race and liberty
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In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy.
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Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.