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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In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race.
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A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved.
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“Amnesia of June Bugs” is an ambitious, infatuated, and furious book about the time we lost and the people we could have loved.
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African Europeans: An Untold History Basic Books 2021-05-04 304 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781541619678 eBook ISBN-13: 9781541619937 Audiobook Downloadable ISBN-13: 9781549136627 Olivette Otele, Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of Enslavement University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian…
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For years, people have asked Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum to reveal the secret to their marriage as a multiracial Christian couple, each with a high-profile ministry calling. This book reveals the lessons, mistakes, and principles that have helped the Bantums navigate race, family history, and gender dynamics in their twenty-plus years of marriage,…
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Marguerite Penrose’s is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father.