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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An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black…
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Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States.
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Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy New York University Press September 2016 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 9781479808175 Paper ISBN: 9781479894864 Laura Harrison, Assistant Professor Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Minnesota State University, Mankato Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman—through in-vitro fertilization…
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This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.
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T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928 University Press of Florida 2008-06-15 342 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3232-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3548-2 Shawn Leigh Alexander, Associate Professor of African-American Studies University of Kansas Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism…
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In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction.
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Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860 University of North Carolina Press 2002 360 pages 6.125 x 9.25, 11 illus., notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 0-8078-2726-6 Paperback ISBN 0-8078-5401-8 eBook ISBN: 9780807862155 Diane Batts Morrow, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies University of Georgia, Athens…
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Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many séance circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Tremé and Marigny as well as the American sector of…