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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Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature University Press of Mississippi 2015-07-10 234 pages 1 b&w illustration, 3 maps, introduction, epilogue, index 6 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN:9781628464757 Edited by: Dillon Brown, Associate Professor of English and African and African American Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Leah Reade Rosenberg, Associate Professor of English University of…
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The colonization of Spanish America resulted in the mixing of Natives, Europeans, and Africans and the subsequent creation of a casta system that discriminated against them. Members of mixed races could, however, free themselves from such burdensome restrictions through the purchase of a gracias al sacar—a royal exemption that provided the privileges of Whiteness.
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Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation Routledge 2015-05-08 (orginally published in 1969) 122 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781138785007 Hardback ISBN: 9781138784994 Franklin J. Franco (1936-2013) Introduction by: Silvio Torres-Saillant, Dean’s Professor in the Humanities Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Blacks, Mulattos, and the Dominican Nation is the first English translation of the classic text Los negros,…
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A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba
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Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance Periscope 2015-07-24 336 pages 204mm x 138mm Paperback ISBN: 9781859643969 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s father “Chick”, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family – except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he…
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For the 150th anniversary of its first publication, a new edition of the pioneering African-American classic, reflecting groundbreaking discoveries about its author’s life
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The Adoption Papers Bloodaxe Books 1991 64 pages 21.6 x 13.9 x 0.5 cm Paperback ISBN: 978-1852241568 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University
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Born in Boston to a Cuban father and an Irish-American mother, Antonio Sacre is one of the few leprecanos on the national speaking circuit.
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Well known as an abolitionist stronghold before the Civil War, Massachusetts had taken steps to eliminate slavery as early as the 1780s. Nevertheless, a powerful racial caste system still held sway, reinforced by a law prohibiting “amalgamation”—marriage between whites and blacks. “The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts” chronicles a grassroots movement to…