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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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave Lushena Books 2014-02-20 (Originally published in 1849) 104 pages 0.2 x 4.9 x 7.9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1631820060 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1631820069 Henry Bibb (1815-1854) Read the entire narrative, courtesy of Documenting the American South (DocSouth) here.
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The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control Verso Books November 2012 (Originally published in August, 1997) 372 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781844677696 Ebook ISBN: 9781844678433 Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) Introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. When the first Africans arrived…
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British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 Ashgate Publishing November 2014 160 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-3088-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-3089-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-3090-8 Kathryn S. Freeman, Associate Professor of English University of Miami, Miami, Florida In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn Freeman…
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Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as “Tell about the South,” “bro•ken/ground,” and “Family Name.”
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In the Creole Twilight: Poems and Songs from Louisiana Folklore Louisiana State University Press September 2015 88 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 30 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807161548 Joshua Clegg Caffery, Visiting Professor in Folklore Indiana University, Bloomington Many recurring motifs found in south Louisiana’s culture spring from the state’s rich folklore. Influenced by settlers of…
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Incognegro, A Graphic Mystery Vertigo 2008 136 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-140121097 Mat Johnson, Author Warren Pleece, Artist Mat Johnson, winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America, masterfully illustrated with rich period detail…
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The Quadroon; or, A Lover’s Adventures In Louisiana Robert M. DeWitt 1856 430 pages Captain Mayne Reid (1818-1883) Read the entire book here.
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The Old Neighborhood, A Novel Curbside Splendor Publishing April 2014 502 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1940430003 Bill Hillmann Bill Hillmann’s debut novel, The Old Neighborhood, is the story of teenager Joe Walsh, the youngest in a large, mixed-race family living in Chicago. After Joe witnesses his older brother commit a gangland murder, his friends and family…