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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Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality University of California Press March 2011 282 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520267305 Paperback ISBN: 9780520267312 Michael J. Montoya, Professor of Anthropology, Chicano/Latino Studies & Public Health University of California, Irvine This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2…
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William Wells Brown: A Reader University of Georgia Press 2008-12-15 488 pages 6 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3223-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3224-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3634-3 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Edited by: Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Born into slavery in…
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Black Legacies: Race and the European Middle Ages University Press of Florida 2014-09-02 192 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-6007-1 Lynn T. Ramey, Associate Professor of French Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in the medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling…
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Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to…
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Pudd’nhead Wilson Harvard University Press February 2015 (Originally Published in 1894) 190 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 7 line illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780674059832 Mark Twain (1835-1910) Introduction by: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University When a murder takes place…
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No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people…
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White Papers University of Pittsburgh Press January 2012 80 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780822961840 Martha Collins Winner of the 2013 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry White Papers is a series of untitled poems that explore race from a variety of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, questioning what it means to be “white” in…
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Metis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood University of British Columbia Press 2014-05-12 284 pages 6 x 9 in. Hardcover ISBN: 9780774827218 Chris Andersen, Research and Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race” or “part Indian, part white.” Canadians…