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: Monographs
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Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited.
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In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an “infernal motley crew” of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. Miller’s dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing.
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Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon’s, and “Black Skin, White Masks” represents some of his most important work.
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African Diasporas: Afro-German Literature in the Context of the African American Experience Lit Verlag 2006 144 pages ISBN: 3-8258-9612-9 Aija Poikane-Daumke This book investigates the development of Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience and shows the decisive role of literature for the emergence of the Afro-German Movement. Various Afro-German literary and…
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Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2009 375 pages 10-digit ISBN: 0-935626-59-X 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-935626-59-9 William S. Yellow Robe Jr., Playwright, Director, Poet, Actor, Writer, and Educator Edited by: Margo Lukens, Associate Professor of English University of Maine Five Plays by William S. Yellow Robe Jr. This…
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The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life University of Alabama Press 2008 248 pages Quality Paper ISBN: 978-0-8173-5488-6 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8173-1615-0 E Book ISBN: 978-0-8173-8113-4 Rosemary Clark Whitlock, Monacan Indian and Independent Scholar The contemporary Monacan Nation had approximately 1,400 registered members in 2006, mostly living in and around Lynchburg, Virginia,…