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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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (Scarborough review) Civil War History Volume 49, Number 1, March 2003 pages 72-74 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2003.0026 William Kauffman Scarborough, Professor Emeritus of History University of Southern Mississippi The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War. By Victoria E. Bynum. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,…
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Brazil’s affirmative action law offers a huge hand up The Christian Science Monitor 2013-02-12 Sara Miller Llana, Latin America Bureau Chief and Staff Writer Public universities in Brazil will reserve half their seats to provide racial, income, and ethnic diversity – a law that goes the furthest in the Americas in attempting race-based equality. It…
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Challenges to Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Skin Color and Verification at the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Florida Volume 14, Issue 1 (Fall 2012) 8 pages Laura Hundersmarck College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida Historically, Brazilian racial identity has been constructed from a color…
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Canada’s Métis win 142-year-old land ruling BBC News 2013-03-08 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the Métis indigenous group 142 years ago. In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was “not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction”. The…
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Historicising Whiteness: From the Case of Late Colonial India Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 2, Number 1 (2006) Whiteness and the Horizons of Race Satoshi Mizutani It has been a while since critical race and whiteness studies have disseminated the now-familiar notion that whiteness is not a…
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Nathan Crowell on Racial Identity: Gloucester County, Virginia, revisited Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-01-14 Victoria E. Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Some time ago, in response to my 10 November 2011 post, “Free People of Color in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County,” (which I…
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Examining ‘Latinidad’ in Latin America: Race, ‘Latinidad’ and the Decolonial Option Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association Volume 8, Number 2, (2012) Directions and Intersections 11 pages Eugenia Demuro, Visiting Fellow School of Language Studies, College of Arts and Social Sciences Australian National University This article provides a critical…
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Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review) French History Volume 27, Issue 1 (2013) pages 135-137 DOI: 10.1093/fh/crs158 Emily Musil Church, Assistant Professor of History Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique. By Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978…
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Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe [Review] H-net Reviews H-SAfrica April 2007 Elizabeth Schmidt, Professor of History Loyola University Maryland James Muzondidya. Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-1-59221-246-0. Based…