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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Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (review) Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2011) pages 208-210 E-ISSN: 1080-6512; Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0007 Kirin Wachter-Grene University of Washington, Seattle Jared Sexton. Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Anxieties about American multiracial identity and practices, known…
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In the Place of Clare Kendry: A Gothic Reading of Race and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2011 pages 143-157 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0024 Johanna M. Wagner Maastricht University Feeling her colour heighten under the continued inspection, she slid her eyes down. What, she wondered, could be the reason for such…
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“The Role of Implicatures in Kate Chopin’s Louisiana Short Stories” Journal of the Short Story in English Issue 40, Spring 2003 pages 69-84 Teresa Gibert, Professor of English Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid It is tempting, in interpreting a literary text from an author one respects, to look further and further…
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Articulating Space: The Free-Colored Military Establishment in Colonial Mexico from the Conquest to Independence Callaloo Volume 27, Number 1 (Winter 2004) pages 150-171 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2004.0052 Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University Introduction: Questioning the Question of Non-White Military Service in Colonial Mexico At the close of…
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The Orange County War of 1856 W. T. Block, (1920-2007) 1979 Reprinted from W. T. Block, “Meanest Town on The Coast,” Old West, Winter, 1979, pp. 10ff. Sources: Galveston Weekly News and Tri-Weekly News, June 1 to July 15, 1856. The issue of July 15 of Tri-Weekly News contains a full, 8-column page of the…
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Afro-Mexican History: Trends and Directions in Scholarship History Compass Volume 3, Issue 1 (January 2005) 14 pages DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2005.00156.x Ben Vinson, III, Vice Dean for Centers, Interdepartmental Programs, and Graduate Programs Johns Hopkins University This article surveys the development of a relatively new and vibrant subfield in Latin American History, mapping out the major stages…
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Re-Writing Race in Early American New Orleans Miranda n°5 (December 2011) Nathalie Dessens, Professor of American History and Civilization Université Toulouse 2, Le Mirail This article examines the representation of the racial pattern and pattern of race relations in early American New Orleans. Starting with a historical and historiographical contextualization, the article shows that race…
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The present essay seeks to explain the ideas about slavery, rape, and commerce embedded in and produced by the passionate desires of Franklin and his partners. For some years, historians interpreting the institutions and ideology of nineteenth-century southern slavery have focused their attentions on explaining slaveholders’ paternalist defenses of their planter institution.