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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An intensely dramatic true story, “Forsaking All Others” recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted—in defiance of society’s laws and conventions—to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge.
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Society, politics, agriculture, and mixed-race unions in a coastal Georgia planter community
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Cinderella Story: A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matter AltaMira Press February 2010 228 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-7591-1176-6 / 978-0-7591-1176-9 James Haywood Rolling, Jr., Associate Professor of Art Education Syracuse University Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the…
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Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900 Duke University Press 2010 296 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4745-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4764-4 Vanita Seth, Associate Professor of Politics University of California, Santa Cruz Europe’s Indians forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference—particularly racial difference—and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of…
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Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family University of Chicago Press 2004 200 pages 22 halftones, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Cloth ISBN: 9780226318219 Paper ISBN: 9780226318233 Ronne Hartfield In her prologue to Another Way Home, Ronne Hartfield notes the dearth of stories about African Americans who have occupied the area of…
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Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity Duke University Press 2008 264 pages 5 photographs, 2 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4058-4 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies Wesleyan University In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those…
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The true story of a slave who became the wealthiest black woman in the South