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: Texas
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The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies [Review by Paul D. Escott] H-Net Reviews May, 2010 3 pages Paul D. Escott, Reynolds Professor of History Wake Forest University “Few histories,” writes Victoria Bynum, “are buried faster or deeper than those of political and social dissenters” (p. 148). The Long Shadow…
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Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 2009-08-13 64 pages The history of race and slavery is often told from the perspective of either the oppressors or the oppressed. This Article takes a different…
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The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 240 pp. 6.125 x 9.25, 9 illus. 1 map, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3381-0 Large Print ISBN: 978-0-8078-7909-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In The Long Shadow of the…
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Most Texas history books name Norris Wright Cuney as one of the most influential African American politicians in nineteenth-century Texas, but they tell little about him beyond his elected positions. In The Cuneys, Douglas Hales not only fills in the details of Cuney’s life and contributions but places him in the context of his family’s…
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A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone Texas Tech University Press September 2008 272 pages 35 B/W photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-89672-635-2 Shirley Gordon Jackson with introduction by Maceo C. Dailey, Jr., Professor of African American Studies University of Texas El Paso The enlightening memoir of one multiethnic family’s struggles and triumphs. Before…