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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A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States Annals of the Association of American Geographers Volume 43, Number 2 (June 1953) pages 138-155 Edward T. Price Los Angeles State College A Strange product of the mingling of races which followed the British entry into North America survives in the presence of a…
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Grave endings: the representation of passing Austrailian Humanities Review Issue 23 (September 2001) Monique Rooney, Lecturer and Honours Convenor College of Arts and Social Sciences Austrailian National University At the 2000 Academy Awards, Hilary Swank won the award of “Best Actress” for her role as Teena Brandon/Brandon Teena in Kimberley Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry (2000).…
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Multiracial populations of U.S. cities CNN April 2011 The number of people who say they belong to at least two races increased by 32% between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Search the table below to see how the population has changed in cities and towns [3,876] with more than 10,000 people.…
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Problems with Plaçage: Historical Imagination and Femmes de couleurs libres in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans Bridges: A Journal of Student Research Coastal Carolina University Issue 3 (Winter 2009) Philip Whalen, Associate Professor of History Coastal Carolina University This essay compares two approaches to understanding the condition of free women of color who struggled to…
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True Blood: The Vampire as a Multiracial Critique on Post-Race Ideology Journal of Dracula Studies Number 12 (2010) 19 pages Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In the Western consciousness there has been a long tradition of the associations between race and evil. According to Celia R.…
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Mixed race women speak out [Review] rabble.ca 2011-02-14 May Lui Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out by Adebe De Rango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, eds.(Inanna Publications, 2010) In the past 20 years Canada has seen a few mixed race anthologies that reflect both the time, place and language that we use to talk about being…
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Review of Kessler, John S.; Ball, Donald B., North From the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio H-Net Reviews June 2002 Penny Messinger, Assistant Professor of History Daemen College, Amherst, New York John S. Kessler, Donald B. Ball. North From the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon…
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Creolization of the Atlantic World: The Portuguese and the Kongolese Portuguese Studies Volume 27, Number 1 (2011-03-01) pages 56-69 Francisco Bethencourt, Professor of History King’s College, London In the 1930s, Gilberto Freyre’s praise of mixed-race people in Brazil challenged the idea of white supremacy, contributing to the building of a new Brazilian identity. In the…