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: Anthropology
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The Indians and the Metis: genealogical sources on Minnesota’s earliest settlers Minnesota History Magazine Volume 46, Number 7 (Fall 1979) pages 286-296 Virginia Rogers Editors Preface GENEALOGISTS have long hesitated to do research on Minnesota’s Indian and métis or mixed-blood population. The fact that Indian and related métis peoples participated in a largely ond culture may…
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Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood [Review by Steve George] Ethnicities Volume 27, Number 2 (2005) Pages 272–274 Steve George Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland Real Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood. By Bonita Lawrence. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 303, bibliography, index,…
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“Mixed-Blood” Indians in Southern New England TalkingFeather Radio Blogtalk Radio 2009-07-15 The historical connections of Native Americans and African people is not a topic that is often discussed in classrooms, nor is it found in elementary, middle and high school history books. The trading that went on with Africans who sailed to this continent and…
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Rocky Point’s African American Past: A Forgotten History Remembered through Historical Archaeology at the Betsey Prince Site Long Island History Journal Volume 22, Issue 1 (Winter 2011) 60 paragraphs Allison Manfra McGovern Department of Anthropology The Graduate Center, City University of New York North Country Road in the wilderness of Rocky Point, that was occupied…
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Afro-Mexican: A Short Study on Identity University of Kansas April 2009 63 pages Ariane Rose Tulloch Submitted to the graduate degree program in Anthropology and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master’s of Arts. Up until the early 19th century, blacks outnumbered white…
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“Our Ancestors came from many Bloods”. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation Lusotopie Volume 12, Issue 1 (2005) pages 217-232 DOI: 10.1163/176830805774719728 Isabel P.B. Fêo Rodrigues, Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Narratives of mixed ancestry in Cape Verde use gender as common denominator in the weaving of a Creole nation. These narratives may…
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A Heritage Celebration: Event recognizes both Hispanic and Native American roots with symposium and several performances San Marcos Daily Record San Marcos, Texas 2011-08-12 San Marcos — San Marcos will experience a unique, two-in-one heritage celebration in a combination of two nationally recognized heritage months — Hispanic and Native American — on Saturday, Oct. 1…
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A Mestizaje of Epistemologies in American Indian Stories and Ceremony Nakum Volume 2.1 (2011) 49 paragraphs Margaret Cantú-Sánchez Department of English University of Texas, San Antonio A close examination of Native American literature reveals that some Native Americans find it difficult to retain ties to their cultural epistemologies once introduced to the assimilationist pedagogies of…
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A Mixture of Culturas: The New Mestiza CHST 404 – Chicana Feminisms (Spring 2012) 2012-04-07 Erika Meza Loyola Marymount University Mestizaje is commonly known as the mixture of the European race with the Indians living in the Americas, something that began very long ago when the Americas were first being conquered. According to anthropologists on…