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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This anthology features the vitality and variety of verse in the City of Angels, a city of poets. This is more about range then representation, voice more than volume. Los Angeles has close to 60 percent people of color, 225 languages spoken at home, and some of the richest and poorest persons in the country.
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Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.
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Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…
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Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings: A Novel Viking Books 2016-04-05 624 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780525429968 Ebook ISBN: 9780698410336 Stephen O’Connor A debut novel about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, in whose story the conflict between the American ideal of equality and the realities of slavery and racism played out in the most tragic of…
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A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands
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A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico University of Oklahoma Press 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806148649 Stephanie Lewthwaite, Lecturer in American History, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region…
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family Atlantic Monthly Press February 2016 336 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8021-2454-8 Gail Lumet Buckley Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress…
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The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde W. W. Norton & Company February 2000 512 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31972-9 Audre Lorde (1934-1992) A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country’s most influential poets.