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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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora University Press of Florida 2014-06-17 240 pages 6.125 x 9.256 Hard Cover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4979-3 Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies University of Montana In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors—Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse…
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Pao: A Novel Bloomsbury Publishing 2011-07-12 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 9781608195077 EPUB eBook ISBN: 9781608196845 Kerry Young As a young boy, Pao comes to Jamaica in the wake of the Chinese civil war and rises to become the Godfather of Kingston’s bustling Chinatown. Pao needs to take care of some…
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“I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.”
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In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self State University of New York Press April 2016 296 pages Hardcover ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5977-6 Electronic ISBN13: 978-1-4384-5978-3 Mariana Ortega, Professor of Philosophy John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio Draws from Latina feminism, existential phenomenology, and race theory to explore the concept of selfhood. This original study intertwining Latina…
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Dangerous Creole Liaisons: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses from 1806 to 1897 Liverpool University Press 2016-05-02 224 Pages 239 x 163mm Hardback ISBN: 9781781383018 Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies University of Kentucky Dangerous Creole Liaisons explores a French Caribbean context to broaden discussions of sexuality, nation building, and colonialism…
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In 2005 Margaret Jones Bolsterli learned that her great-great-grandfather was a free mulatto named Jordan Chavis, who owned an antebellum plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The news was a shock; Bolsterli had heard about the plantation in family stories told during her Arkansas Delta childhood, but Chavis’s name and race had never been mentioned.
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The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War University of North Carolina Press March 2016 352 pages 32 halftones, 10 maps, 4 tables appends., notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN 978-1-4696-2705-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos With a New Afterword by the Author Between late…