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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The first-ever biography of Alessandro de’ Medici, arguably the first black head of state
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Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to undermine and overturn claims of mestizaje or Mexican homogeneity.
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation Basic Books 2016-04-26 416 pages Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-465-01841-3 Nicholas Guyatt, University Lecturer in American History Cambridge University The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America’s racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that “all men are…
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From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 McGill-Queen’s University Press November 2014 712 Pages, 6 x 9 32 b&w photos ISBN: 9780773544550 Rotem Kowner, Professor Department of Asian Studies University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel An examination of the evolution of European racial views of the Japanese. When Europeans first…
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Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States and its history of intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory.
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Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. “Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific” traces the intimate relationships that existed in the wartime South Pacific between U.S. servicemen and Indigenous women, and considers the fate of…
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The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America’s First Black Dynasty HarperCollins 2006-06-27 512 pages 5.313 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.821 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 978-0060184124 Paperback ISBN: 9780060985134 eBook ISBN: 9780061873911 Lawrence Otis Graham Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune…
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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period.