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: Africa
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This biography details the life of Bessie Head – a life which echoes so many of the aspects of the distressing history of South Africa in the last half century. She was born in an asylum to a mother who was considered mad because her father was black. Despite the disadvantages of being both a…
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‘Toubab La!’ Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora Cambridge Scholars Publishing July 2007 453 pages ISBN13: 9781847182319 ISBN: 1-84718-231-3 Ginette Curry, Professor of English Florida International University The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and…
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‘No Such Thing as a Mulatto Slave’: Legal Pluralism, Racial Descent and the Nuances of Slave Women’s Sexual Vulnerability in the Legal Odyssey of Steyntje van de Kaap, c.1815-1822 Fiona Vernal Department of History University of Connecticut Slavery & Abolition Volume 29, Issue 1 January 2008 pages 23 – 47 DOI: 10.1080/01440390701841034 In 1815, a…
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Crimes of ‘Blood’: A comparative analysis of South Africa’s Immorality Act (1927 & 1950) and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949), and Miscegenation Laws in North America W.E.B. DuBois Insitute for African and African American Research at Harvard University Date: Spring 2010 Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town This study compares…
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People of God, Children of Ham: Making black(s) Jews Journal of Modern Jewish Studies Volume 8, Issue 2 (July 2009) pages 237 – 254 DOI: 10.1080/14725880902949551 Bruce Haynes, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Davis Taxonomies inherited from the nineteenth century have shaped the discourse surrounding the racial identity and supposed roots of Ethiopian…