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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“To Be Suddenly White” explores the troubled relationship between literary passing and literary realism, the dominant aesthetic motivation behind the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ethnic texts considered in this study.
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My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir Simon and Schuster October 2011 368 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1451627548; ISBN-13: 9781451627541 eBook ISBN-10: 1451627564; ISBN-13: 9781451627565 Mark Whitaker In a dramatic, moving work of historical reporting and personal discovery, Mark Whitaker, award-winning journalist, sets out to trace the story of what happened to his parents, a fascinating…
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Powerful autobiography from the front woman of influential ska band, The Selecter
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A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany Palgrave Macmillan September 2010 282 pages 6 x 9 1/4 inches, Includes: 50 pgs illus Paperback ISBN: 978-0-230-10473-0, ISBN10: 0-230-10473-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10472-3, ISBN10: 0-230-10472-X Maria Höhn, Professor of History Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York Martin Klimke, Research Fellow German Historical Institute,…
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The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America Hill and Wang (an imprint of Macmillan) May 2011 432 pages 6 x 9 inches, 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8090-9517-9, ISBN10: 0-8090-9517-3 Julie Winch, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Boston The historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans…
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Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674035911 February 2010 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 21 halftones, 2 maps Jane G. Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Vanderbilt University 2011 Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group…
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When Danzy Senna’s parents married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history: two beautiful young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds—a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father.