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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Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast The American Historical Review Volume 119, Issue 1 (February 2014) pages 78-110 DOI: 10.1093/ahr/119.1.78 Carina E. Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts In the summer and fall of 1919, the African-owned Gold Coast…
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“Turning Up Their Noses at the Colonel”: Eastern Aristocracy, Western Democracy, and Richard Mentor Johnson Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Volume 111, Number 4, Autumn 2013 pages 525-561 DOI: 10.1353/khs.2014.0022 Miles Smith Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas In February 1849, the Kentucky legislature debated who would represent the state and fill the open…
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‘Mixed’ [Watson Review] Inside Higher Ed 2014-01-31 Andrea Watson Garrod, Andrew, Christina Gómez, Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013). 208 pages. Mixed (Cornell University Press) is a collection of 12 autobiographical essays written by college students who identify as multiracial. Unlike most books that focus on…
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The Young White Faces of Slavery The New York Times 2014-01-30 Mary Niall Mitchell, Joseph Tregle Professor of Early American History University of New Orleans For Northern readers scanning the Jan. 30, 1864, issue of Harper’s Weekly for news from the South, a large engraving on page 69 brought the war home in an unexpected…
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Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers? The Guardian 2014-01-28 Stuart Jeffries, Feature Writer and Columnist Certain viewers are non-plussed by the casting of a musketeer of colour, but surely blind casting is preferable to an historical whitewash Studs in leather? Check. Swordplay? Check. Buckled swash? Check. Medieval cleavages? Check. Over-complicated…
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A new generation of viewers are being introduced to the swashbuckling adventures of D’Artagnan and his friends and brothers in arms Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Many will know their motto, “All for one, One for all”…