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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Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers National Genealogical Society Quarterly (current source: Historic Pathways) Volume 70, Number 3 (September 1982) pages 163-189 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The pursuit of genealogical research by Afro-Americans is a fairly-recent innovation in the American social experience. From an academic standpoint, today’s generation of black family historians…
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Student reflection on the Luther Lecture Impetus Luther College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Fall 2011 Jenna Tickell Senator Lillian Eva Dyck was the 36th Annual Luther Lecturer. Senator Dyck presented her personal story in relation to the issues of racism and sexism in Canada. She began with power-point statistics and ended with…
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Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 3, Number 3 (Winter, 1973) pages 509-541 Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Duke University In the comparative study of race relations, the evolution of group identity constitutes a central process. Although group boundaries tend…
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Her “Nig”: Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen’s “Passing” Modern Language Studies Volume 32, Number 2 (Autumn, 2002) pages 109-138 Lori Harrison-Kahan, Full-time Adjunct Faculty in English Boston College In a scene from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, Passing, a white man, John Bellew, enters his Chicago hotel room to find his wife, Clare, taking tea…
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Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South The Journal of Southern History Volume 71, Number 3 (August, 2005) pages 559-588 Fay A. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of History University of Oklahoma My father’s name wuz Robert Stewart. He wuz a white man. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her…
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A Pedigree Study of Amerindian Crosses in Canada The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 58, (July – December, 1928) pages 511-532 R. Ruggles Gates Department of Anthropology Harvard University This paper is an attempt to apply genetical methods to the study of inter-racial crossing. In the anthropological studies…