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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Category: Articles
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Bynum: The Long Shadow of the Civil War (2010) The Civil War Monitor: A New Look at America’s Greatest Conflict 2011-10-19 Laura Hepp Bradshaw Carnegie Mellon University The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies by Victoria E. Bynum. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth, ISBN: 0807833819. “Few…
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New Photo Essay: (1)ne Drop (1)ne Drop 2011-09-26 Yaba Blay Comments by Steven F. Riley: In keeping with the non-commercial aspect of this site, I have modified the fundraising press release to provide informational content about the book project. There is howerver, a short fundraising request at the end of the video. PHILADELPHIA, PA – Africana Studies scholar Yaba Blay, Ph.D., and award-winning…
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The Bondage of Race and the Freedom of Transcendence in Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English since 2000 Durham University Issue Number 4 (September 2001) Briallen Hopper, Lecturer in English Yale University Frederick Douglass has a strange way of describing what he feels like…
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Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines City on a Hill Press: A Student-Run Newspaper University of California, Santa Cruz 2011-10-20 Chelsea Hawkins When I was six or seven years old, I would spend my Saturday afternoons at the local Korean Baptist Church. A pink textbook opened in front of me, oversized hangul…
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Tracing Trails of Blood on Ice: Commemorating “The Great Escape” in 1861-62 of Indians and Blacks into Kansas Negro History Bulletin Jaunary-December 2001 Willard B. Johnson My heart raced and emotions surged before I consciously grasped the meaning of what I was reading in that footnote. Reading all the footnotes had become routine for me,…
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Challenges and resilience in the lives of urban, multiracial adults: An instrument development study. Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 58, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 494-507 DOI: 10.1037/a0024633 Nazish M. Salahuddin Karen M. O’Brian Multiracial Americans represent a rapidly growing population (Shih & Sanchez, 2009); however, very little is known about the types of challenges…
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“Asi lo paresçe por su aspeto”: Physiognomy and the Construction of Difference in Colonial Bogotá Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 601-631 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416648 Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Anthropology Georgetown University My objective in this article is to examine the relationship between perception and classification in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Andes,…
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“Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 633-663 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416657 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried…
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She Just Loved Baseball Black Athlete Sports Network 2010-02-28 Bill Carroll NEW YORK—Effa Manley was seemingly yet another “lost” pioneer in Negro Leagues Baseball before being posthumously honored in 2006 with induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. She was part of a class of players and executives selected by a special committee chaired by…