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 lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…
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Deconstructing a Manumission Document: Mary Stafford’s Free Paper The Georgia Historical Quarterly Volume 89, Number 3 (Fall 2005) pages 285-317 Mary R. Bullard This article examines the manumission document of Mary Stafford. In early nineteenth-century Georgia, manumitting one’s slave property was a personal matter loosely regulated by the state. In exchange for a one dollar…
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Lawrence Powell delivers a gripping history of New Orleans in ‘Accidental City’ New Orleans Times-Picayune 2012-04-02 Chris Waddington At first, I was disappointed to hear that Lawrence Powell’s history of the Crescent City ended with the Battle of New Orleans. I wanted the Tulane University scholar to bring me a little closer to the present.…
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A Contested Presence: Free Blacks in Antebellum Mississippi, 1820–1860 Mississippi History Now: An online publication of the Mississippi Historical Society August 2000 Denoral Davis, Profesor of History Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi During its first half century as a territory and state (1810-1860), Mississippi was an agrarian-frontier society. Its population was made up of four…
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Manumission in nineteenth-century Virginia Cliometrica: A Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2011) pages 145-164 DOI: 10.1007/s11698-010-0056-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Using previously unexploited data, this paper explores the ages at which slaves were manumitted. OLS estimates reveal that mixed-race slaves, slaves in…
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Social Construction of Ethnicity Versus Personal Experience: The Case of Afro-Amerasians Journal of Comparative Family Studies Volume 29, Issue 2 (Summer 1998) pages 255-267 Teresa Kay Williams Michael C. Thornton, Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison The article focuses on the existence of ethnic group differences in the U.S. and how the subgroup…
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Just Finished Reading: Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books. 2012-04-17 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky The practice of slavery created many complications. Not the least of these were the children produced by relationships…