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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In “Beyond the Sunset,” Wayne Winkler uses contemporary press reports, long-forgotten documents, and interviews with participants to chronicle the struggles of an impoverished rural Appalachian county to maintain its viability in the modern world–and the unexpected consequences of that effort.
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“Walking toward the Sunset” is a historical examination of the Melungeons, a mixed-race group predominantly in southern Appalachia.
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For more than a century, skin lighteners have been an ubiquitous feature of global popular culture—embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists. In “Beneath the Surface,” Lynn M. Thomas constructs a transnational history of skin lighteners in South Africa and beyond.
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From their earliest encounters with indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be, racially, almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In “Possessing Polynesians” Maile Arvin analyzes this racializing history within the context of settler colonialism across Polynesia,…
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An unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimer’s strikes
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Bookended by the deaths of her mother in childhood, and Tony this year, “All at Sea” looks at class, race, privilege and prejudice through the prism of Decca’s life and these deaths. It stares into the dark chasm of our worst nightmare – a random accidental tragedy – and somehow finds the light on the…
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The classic biography of the infamous black Negrophobe William Hannibal Thomas, with a new preface by the author
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A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic.