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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Imagining Jefferson and Hemings in Paris TransAtlantica: American Studies Journal 1 | 2011 : Senses of the South / Référendums populaires 10 pages, 20 paragraphs Suzanne W. Jones, Professor of English University of Richmond In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, cultural critic bell hooks argues that “no one seems to know how to tell…
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Plaque honour for ‘first black star’ Elisabeth Welch BBC News 2012-02-27 The singer Elisabeth Welch is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London. She is the second black woman to be honoured with a blue plaque in London. It will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home…
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American Indian Identity and Blood Quantum in the 21st Century: A Critical Review Journal of Anthropology Volume 2011 (2011) Article ID 549521 9 pages DOI: 10.1155/2011/549521 Ryan W. Schmidt Department of Anthropology University of Montana Identity in American Indian communities has continually been a subject of contentious debate among legal scholars, federal policy-makers, anthropologists, historians,…
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The Indians and the Metis: genealogical sources on Minnesota’s earliest settlers Minnesota History Magazine Volume 46, Number 7 (Fall 1979) pages 286-296 Virginia Rogers Editors Preface GENEALOGISTS have long hesitated to do research on Minnesota’s Indian and métis or mixed-blood population. The fact that Indian and related métis peoples participated in a largely ond culture may…
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A Seminole Warrior Cloaked in Defiance Smithsonian Magazine October 2010 Owen Edwards A pair of woven, beaded garters reflects the spirit of Seminole warrior Osceola Infinity of nations,” a new permanent exhibition encompassing nearly 700 works of indigenous art from North, Central and South America, opens October 23 at the George Gustav Heye Center in…
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Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood [Review by Steve George] Ethnicities Volume 27, Number 2 (2005) Pages 272–274 Steve George Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. By Bonita Lawrence. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 303, bibliography, index,…
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The Legend of Marley: Kevin Macdonald considers reggae, Rasta and politics in new documentary Film Journal International 2012-04-19 Doris Toumarkine It’s taken several decades and faced many frustrating setbacks, but a richly documented and worthy film about the late reggae superstar Bob Marley has at last been realized. Previously attached to Martin Scorsese and Jonathan…