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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North End Love Songs J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2012-03-20 108 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-897289-76-1 Katherena Vermette Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. A self-described “tuff grrl with two ffs” there is no doubt that after poet Katherena Vermette’s first collection of poetry, North End Love Songs, she will also be known as…
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“The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South” demonstrates that the emergent twenty-first-century recognition of race mixing and the relative advantages of light-skinned, mixed-race people represent a re-emergence of one salient feature of race in America that dates to its founding.
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Racial Prescriptions: Pharmaceuticals, Difference, and the Politics of Life Ashgate September 2014 148 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4094-4498-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4094-4499-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-0107-6 Jonathan Xavier Inda, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In the contemporary United States, matters of life and health have become key political…
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Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in…
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Fast Talking PI Arc Publications July 2012 80 pages 216 x 138 mm (paperback), 223 x 145 mm (hardback) Paperback ISBN: 978-1904614-35-7 Hardback ISBN: 978-1904614-77-7 Selina Tusitala Marsh, Senior Lecturer of English Drama and Writing Studies University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Fast Talking PI (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet’s focus on issues affecting Pacific…
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Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon Ohio University Press 2014 336 pages 6 × 9 in., 7 b&w photos, 4 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8214-2120-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8214-2119-2 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8214-4503-7 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of California, Davis Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of…
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The Life of William Apess, Pequot University of North Carolina Press March 2015 216 pages 1 halftone, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-1998-9 Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess…