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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A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans
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The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection University of Virginia Press May 2015 224 pages 6×9 inches Cloth ISBN: 9780813937014 Paper ISBN: 9780813937021 Ebook ISBN: 9780813937038 Jinny Huh, Associate Professor of English University of Vermont In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny…
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A true and deeply moving narrative of forbidden love during World War II and a shocking, hidden history of race on the home front
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This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and…
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In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and one was missing, never to be found. “Valley of the Guns” explores the reasons for the violence that engulfed the settlement, turning…
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Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis’s memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier.