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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“First Martyr of Liberty” explores how Crispus Attucks’s death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans’ struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative.
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The politics of racial difference amid the tumult of modern Mexican history
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Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897 University of California Press December 1995 365 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520203433 Robert M. Levine (1941-2003), Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies University of Miami The massacre of Canudos In 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the…
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A fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.
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“We Are Who We Say We Are” provides a detailed, nuanced account of shifting forms of racial identification within an extended familial network and constrained by law and social reality.
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A ground-breaking, seminal work, “Black Tudors” challenges the accepted narrative that racial slavery was all but inevitable and forces us to re-examine the seventeenth century to determine what caused perceptions to change so radically.
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“Race and the Brazilian Body” weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil’s “comfortable racial contradiction,” where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country’s history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict.
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Riveting trials that exposed conflicting attitudes toward race and liberty
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In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy.