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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Amalgamation! Race, Sex, and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel Praeger 1985-08-22 259 pages ISBN: 0-313-24275-5/978-0-313-24275-5 James Kinney This book is likely out of print.
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In “Transatlantic Spectacles of Race,” Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace.
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A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 University of Nebraska Press 2000 233 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8293-3 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great…
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This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of ‘passing’. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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Hoskins explores the everyday lives of people of Asian/white and Asian/black heritage to uncover the role of our society’s white-black continuum in shaping racial identity. Mixing intimate personal stories with cutting-edge theoretical analysis, he directly confronts the notion that multiracial identity provides an easy solution for our society’s racial stratification.
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy University of Virginia Press 1998 305 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-1833-4 Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of History Harvard University When Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas…
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In this groundbreaking study, Thomas Ingersoll argues the Jacksonian American Indian removal policy appealed to popular racial prejudice against all Indians, including special suspicion of mixed bloods. Lawmakers also perceived a threat to white Americans’ transatlantic reputation posed by the potential for general racial mixture, or “amalgamation.”
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Nadine Ehlers examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imaginary and asks, how do individuals become racial subjects?