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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My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan Publishers) 2022-05-03 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780374604875 Audio ISBN: 9781250856319 Digital Audio ISBN: 9781250856326 e-Book ISBN: 9780374604882 Will Jawando, Councilmember Montgomery County, Maryland Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative…
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A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment.
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This book explores the life and contributions of groundbreaking attorney, Elreta Melton Alexander Ralston (1919-98). In 1945 Alexander became the first African American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School.
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“Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing” explores how Southwestern writers and visual artists provide an opportunity to turn a stigmatized identity into a self-conscious holder of valuable assets, cultural attitudes, and memories.
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A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives
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“The White Indians of Mexican Cinema” theorizes the development of a unique form of racial masquerade—the representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity—during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Drawing on understudied archives, this pathbreaking work unearths a new history of Black rural geography and popular legalism, and offers a new framework for thinking about nineteenth-century Black freedom.
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This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue.
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The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs