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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Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my…
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Race Passing and American Individualism University of Massachusetts Press February 2003 176 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-55849-377-8 (Print on Demand) Kathleen Pfeiffer, Professor of English Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture In the literature of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, black characters who pass for…
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The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness Louisiana State University Press 1987 448 pages 6×9 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-1548-0 Cynthia Earl Kerman, Emeritus Professor of English Villa Julie College in Stevenson, Maryland Richard Eldridge Jean Toomer (1894–1967) arrived on the American literary scene in 1923 with the publication of Cane, a small, emotional book…
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Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South The University of Arkansas Press 2003 160 pages 6″x9″ Paper: 1-55728–833-X (978-1-55728-833-2) Cloth: 1-55728-755-4 (978-1-55728-755-7) Charles F. Robinson II, Associate Professor of History, Vice Provost for Diversity, and Director of African American Studies program University of Arkansas In the tumultuous decades after the Civil War, as…
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Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides University of Washington Press 2004 296 pages 6″ x 9″ Paperback (9789622096714) Hardcover (9789622096707) Vicky Lee Hong Kong Baptist University What was it like being a Eurasian in colonial Hong Kong? How is the notion of Eurasianness remembered in some Hong Kong memoirs? Being Eurasian is a description and…
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“Eurafricans in Western Africa” traces the rich social and commercial history of western Africa. The most comprehensive study to date, it begins prior to the sixteenth century when huge profits made by middlemen on trade in North African slaves, salt, gold, pepper, and numerous other commodities prompted Portuguese reconnaissance voyages along the coast of western…