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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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia University of Georgia Press June 2012 192 pages 6 b&w photos, 1 map Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3229-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3230-7 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-4364-8 Eva Sheppard Wolf, Associate Professor of History San Francisco State University In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf…
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“That the Blood Stay Pure” traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.
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Before her untimely death in 2010, Ai, known for her searing dramatic monologues, was hailed as “one of the most singular voices of her generation” (New York Times Book Review). Now for the first time, all eight books by this essential and uniquely American poet have been gathered in one volume.
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Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country University of Oklahoma Press 1996 292 pages 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780806128139 Jennifer S.H. Brown, Professor of History University of Winnipeg For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert’s Land, the vast territory charted to…
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Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History University of Oklahoma Press 2012 520 pages Illustrations: 12 B&W Illus., 8 Maps, 16 Tables 6.125 x 9.25 in Paperback ISBN: 9780806144870 Edited by: Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Carolyn Podruchny, Associate Professor of History York University, Toronto Brenda Macdougall, Associate Professor of…
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My Bondage and My Freedom Yale University Press 2014 (originally published in 1855 by Miller, Orton & Mulligan) 432 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780300190595 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Introduction and Notes by David W. Blight Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition…
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Things That Must Not Be Forgotten is a beautifully written collection of Michael David Kwan’s childhood experiences in China during the 1930s and 1940s. Born into privilege, David saw his pampered life disintegrate as the Japanese overran China. His father, the wealthy administrator for China’s railroads, took a position in the pro-Japanese government to work…
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Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject Duke University Press 2010 344 pages 51 illustrations, incl. 18 in color Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4247-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4266-3 Kirsten Pai Buick, Associate Professor of Art History University of New Mexico Child of the Fire is the first book-length…
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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 University of Nebraska Press 2011 648 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2405-6 Anne F. Hyde, William R. Hochman Professor of History Colorado College Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little…