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: Biography
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In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010) Perspectives on History November 2010 Estelle Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University Scholar of gender, race, and the U.S. West; 2009 winner of AHA’s William H. Dunning Prize and Joan Kelly Prize Peggy Pascoe, the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of ethnic studies…
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“The devil made the mulatto”: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history.…
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“Hearing Radmilla” Film Screening Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W. A. Franke College of Business (bldg. 81, room 101) 2010-11-22, 19:00 to 21:30 (Local Time) Native American Heritage Month The film will be introduced by filmmaker/producer Angela Webb, Radmilla Cody–Miss Navajo Nation 1997-1998, followed by Questions & Answer session. The film follows Radmilla…
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The Influence of Bob Marley’s Absent, White Father The Dread Library Essays from the University of Vermont Class, Rhetoric of Reggae Music 2002-04-30 Scott Gurtman My fadda was a guy yunno, from England here, yunno? Him was like…like you can read it yunno, it’s one o’dem slave stories: white guy get the black woman and…
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Douglass, Ellison and Marley lived on racial frontiers. Their interactions with mixed audiences made them key figures in an interracial consciousness and culture, integrative ancestors who can be claimed by more than one group.
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First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction.
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Scratching the surface: Artist Laylah Ali explores the social dynamics that lie beyond appearances Boston Globe 2008-08-29 Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent WILLIAMSTOWN – Laylah Ali doesn’t let many people into her studio. “It’s a private space,” the artist says, welcoming a visitor. “It’s like being in my brain. I’m inviting you into my private brain…
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When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface.
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Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature University of Missouri Press 2005 168 pages 6 x 9 index, bibliography ISBN 978-0-8262-1578-9 Antonio D. Tillis, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Dartmouth University Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature is an examination of the fictional work of…
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Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success University of Missouri Press October 2010 192 pages 15 illustrations, bibliography index ISBN-10: 0826218997 ISBN-13: 978-0826218995 Carolyn Marie Wilkins, Professor Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair,…