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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Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization LSU Press September 1992 352 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780807117743 Edited by: Arnold R. Hirsch, University Research Professor of History University of New Orleans Joseph Logsdon This collection of six original essays explores the peculiar ethnic composition and history of New Orleans, which the authors persuasively…
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Northwest of Manhattan where the New York-New Jersey boundary crosses the tree-covered ridges and hollows ridges and hollows of the Ramapo Mountains there is a group of about 1,500 racially mixed people who have long been referred to by journalists and historians as the “Jackson Whites.”
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There are no three primary races, no three major groups. The idea of three primary races stems from nineteenth-century typology; it is totally misleading to put the black-skinned people of the world together-to put the Australian in the same grouping with the inhabitants of Africa. And there are certainly at least three independent origins of…
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Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line Backintyme Publishing April 2010 258 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479320 Edited by Scott Withrow Borderlands of “Racial” Identity Some Americans pretend that a watertight line separates the “races.” But most know that millions of mixed-heritage families crossed from one “race” to another over the past four centuries. Every essay in…
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From blanqueamiento to reindigenización: Paradoxes of mestizaje and multiculturalism in contemporary Colombia European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80, (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 5-23 Margarita Chaves, Researcher Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH), Bogotá Marta Zambrano, Associate Professor of Historical Anthropology Universidad Nacional Colombia, Bogotá During the past two…
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Family Tree’s Startling Roots The New York Times 2012-03-19 Felicia Lee Thirty-nine lashes “well laid” on her bare back and an extension of her indentured servitude was Elizabeth Banks’s punishment for “fornication & Bastardy with a negroe slave,” according to a stark June 20, 1683, court document from York County, Va. Through the alchemy of…
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Coloring: An Investigation of Racial Identity Politics within the Black Indian Community Georgia State University 2007 106 pages Charlene Jeanette Graham A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts In the College of Arts and Sciences Historical interconnections between Native Americans and many people of African descent in…