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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Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 33, Number 4 Fall 2009 E-ISSN: 1534-1828 Print ISSN: 0095-182X DOI: 10.1353/aiq.0.0078 Gary C. Cheek Jr. Jolivétte, Andrew J., Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, Lexington Books, 2006. “Who is white?” Jolivétte asks in the first chapter…
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History, Trauma, and the Discursive Construction of “Race” in John Dominis Holt’s Waimea Summer Cultural Critique Number 47, Winter 2001 pages 167-214 DOI: 10.1353/cul.2001.0026 Susan Y. Najita, Associate Professor of English University of Michigan In contemporary discussions about the literature of Hawai’i and its decolonization, a central problematic resulting from on-going Euro-American imperialism is the…
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Who’s Your Mama? “White” Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom American Literary History Volume 14, Number 3 (Fall 2002) DOI: 10.1093/alh/14.3.505 pages 505-359 P. Gabrielle Foreman, Professor of English and American Studies Occidental College Partus sequitur ventrem. The child follows the condition of the mother. US slave law and custom…
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The Louisiana Metoyers American Visions June, 2000 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The Metoyer family of Louisiana provides an intriguing ample of the degree to which class, race and economic lines were blurred in early America. The Metoyers were both slaves and masters; in that regard, they were not unique. They were singular…
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“Of Portuguese Origin”: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the “Little Races” in Nineteenth-Century America Law and History Review 2007 Volume 25, Number 3 Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History University of Southern California The history of race in the nineteenth-century United States is often told as a…
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‘Our sea of islands’: migration and métissage in contemporary Polynesian writing International Journal of Francophone Studies Volume 11, Issue 4 (December 2008) pages 503-522 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.11.4.503_1 Michelle Keown, Senior Lecturer of English Literature University of Edinburgh This article explores metaphors of oceanic migration in contemporary Polynesian writing, investigating the notion of a regional ‘Oceanic’ identity…
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“I’m Black an’ I’m Proud”: Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visible Culture Issue number 13 (Spring 2009): After Post-Colonialism University of Rochester, New York Charlotte McIvor, Lecturer in Drama National University Ireland, Galway This article examines Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga‘s performance in Neil Jordan’s 2005 Breakfast…