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 Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain Ethnohistory Volume 59, Number 4 (2012) pages 713-738 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1642725 Robert C. Schwaller, Assistant Professor of History University of Kansas One of the most interesting aspects of sixteenth-century Mexico is the predominance of native languages, Nahuatl in particular, among all members of…
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Roles of a Lifetime | Halle Berry The New York Times Magazine 2012-10-20 Joyce Maynard It’s 10 in the morning, and already Halle Berry is being chased, though a better word for what’s going on might be “hunted.” Considering this, the Oscar-winning actress — one of the stars of the film “Cloud Atlas” — makes…
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Biracial identity: trying to fit in The Daily Tar Heel University of North Carolina 2012-10-22 Averi Harper, Columnist You’re Hispanic, right? No? Well, are you Middle Eastern? No? Then what are you? Oh, that’s so interesting! The above is just a sample of the prodding questions that sometimes come with biracial or multiracial identity. Biracial…
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Remarkable Particulars: David Gamut and the Alchemy of Race in The Last of the Mohicans ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 58, Number 1, 2012 (No. 226 O.S.) pages 36-70 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2012.0010 Deidre Dallas Hall University of North Carolina, Greensboro David Gamut, the hapless psalmodist traveling with Major Heyward and his charges in…
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“Maneuvers of Silence and the Task of ‘New Negro’ Womanhood” Journal of Narrative Theory Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2012 pages 46-68 DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2012.0006 Emily M. Hinnov, Assistant Dean of Curriculum & Lecturer of English Granite State College, Concord, New Hampshire Yes, she has arrived. Like her white sister, she is the product of profound…
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The Crime of Being Married Life Magazine 1966-03-18 pages 85- Source: Library of Virginia Photographs by Grey Villet A Virginia couple fights to overturn an old law against miscegenation She is Negro, he is white, and they are married. This puts them in a kind of legal purgatory in their home state of Virginia, which…
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The New Virginia Law To Preserve Racial Integrity Virginia Health Bulletin Virginia Department of Health Volume XVI, Extra Number 2 (March 1924) pages 1-4 Source: Pamphlet: Rockbridge County Clerk’s Correspondence, 1912–1943. Local Government Records Collection. The Library of Virginia, (Racial Integrity Act Documents) 12-1245-005 W. A. Plecker, M. D. State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Richmond,…
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In 1898, journalist Louis J. Beck offered the reading public what he saw as a valuable case study in “heredity and racial traits and tendencies.” This case study was none other than the infamous “half-breed” criminal George Washington Appo (1856–1930), whose name was virtually a household word for New Yorkers of the time.