Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book “Sugar and Slaves,” Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean.
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Losing My Cool: Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd Penguin Books April 2010 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780143119623 ePub ISBN: 9781101404348 Thomas Chatterton Williams Growing up, Thomas Chatterton Williams knew he loved three things in life: his parents, literature, and the intoxicating hip-hop culture that surrounded him. For years, he managed…
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The Birth of A Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War PublicAffairs 2014-11-04 368 pages 6.300 x 9.500 Hardcover ISBN: 9781586489878 eBook ISBN: 9781586489885 Dick Lehr, Professor of Journalism Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation…
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present Cambridge University Press January 2013 219 pages 19 b/w illus. 1 map 19 tables 229 x 153 x 14 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521193627 Paperback ISBN: 9780521145350 eBook ISBN: 9781139602723 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Immigration, Ethnicity, and…
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The incontrovertible truths of this book and its sincere warnings are respectfully inscribed to every white man and woman, regardless of nationality, who is a bona fide citizen of the United States of America.
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Letters To a Mixed Race Son CreateSpace 2012-01-06 152 pages 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1468184024; ISBN-13: 978-1468184020 Frank E. Robinson, Jr. Foreword by Bishop Charles E. Blake In a world that continues to grapple with notions of race, a loving father writes a series of letters that speak into the life…
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Who We Be: The Colorization of America St. Martin’s Press (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2014 416 pages 7.81 x 9.33 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780312571290; ISBN10: 0312571291 Jeff Chang, Executive Director Institute for Diversity in the Arts Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago…
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“Race Unmasked” revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea of race, and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age.