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 Evolution of ‘Portuguese’ Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century The Journal of African History Volume 40, Issue 2 (1999) pages 173-191 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, Portugal established a trading presence along the…
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Louis Riel and the dispersion of the American Métis Minnesota History Magazine Volume 49, Issue 5 (1985) Pages 179-190 Thomas Flanagan, Professor of Political Science University of Calgary, Alberta THE MÉTIS leader Louis Riel is perhaps best known to readers of Minnesota History in connection with the Red River insurrection of 1869-70. When Canada agreed…
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Edward W. Blyden, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the ‘Color Complex’ The Journal of Modern African Studies Volume 30, Number 4 (December, 1992) pages 669-684 DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00011101 Michael J. C. Echeruo, William Safire Professor in Modern Letters English Department Syracuse University This article is an attempt to present (and thereby to come to terms…
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Mark Twain and Homer Plessy Representations Number 24, Special Issue: America Reconstructed, 1840-1940 (Autumn, 1988) pages 102-128 Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Johns Hopkins University The carnivalesque drama of doubling, twinship, and masquerade that constitutes Pudd’nhead Wilson and its freakishly extracted yet intimately conjoined story, “Those Extraordinary Twins,” is likely…
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Jean Toomer: Fugitive American Literature Volume 47, Number 1 (March, 1975) page 84-96 Charles Scruggs, Professor of English University of Arizona As a young boy, Jean Toomer attended a dinner party during which someone asked his famous grandfather, P. B. S. Pinchback, if he indeed had “colored” blood. The light-skinned former lieutenant governor of Louisiana…
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Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse Texas Studies in Literature and Language Volume 35, Number 2, Anxieties of Identity in American Writing (Summer 1993) pages 226-250 George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Adjunct Professor of American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington The culture which will…