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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Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin University of Illinois Press December 2011 168 pages 6 x 9 in. 4 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03657-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-252-09361-6 Jacqueline A. McLeod, Associate Professor of History and African & African American Studies Metropolitan State College of Denver The trailblazing work…
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Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2014-03-06 320 pages 5.74 x 8.58in Hardcover ISBN: 9781594631399 Helen Oyeyemi From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives…
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Identity Politics of the Captivity Narrative after 1848 University of Nebraska Press 2006 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4400-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2067-6 Andrea Tinnemeyer, English Teacher The College Prepartory School, Oakland, California Andrea Tinnemeyer’s book examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of…
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Continuous Frieze Bordering Red Fordham University Press April 2012 78 pages 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 Hardcover ISBN: 9780823243044 Paperback ISBN: 9780823243051 Michelle Naka Pierce, Associate Professor Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons,…
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In “Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe,” Matthew Pratt Guterl brings out a little known side of the celebrated personality, showing how her ambitions of later years were even more daring and subversive than the youthful exploits that made her the first African American superstar.
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In a moving account, anthropologist Paula L. Wagoner tells the story of Bennett County, using snapshots of community events and crises, past and present, to reveal the complexity of race relations and identities there.
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Elsie’s Business University of Nebraska Press 2006 216 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-9865-1 Frances Washburn, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies and English University of Arizona Beaten, raped, and left for dead at the side of a road on the Standing Rock Reservation, young Elsie Roberts disappears into her self to revisit the haunts of her…
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“Tuning Out Blackness” fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television.