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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The first systematic study of families in sixteenth century Peru with a transatlantic focus Traces family obligations connecting Peru and Spain through dowries, bequests, legal powers, and letters
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition Yale University Press 2016-10-25 264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 7 b/w illustrations Paperback ISBN: 9780300204711 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Edited by: John R. McKivigan, Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis Peter P. Hinks Heather L. Kaufman,…
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Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected. From reprinting and reframing “The Charge of the Light…
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The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola Rutgers University Press November 2016 200 pages 9 photographs, 2 figures, 2 maps, 8 tables 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-8448-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-8447-8 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-8450-8 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-8449-2 Milagros Ricourt, Associate Professor of Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies…
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In “Colluding, Colliding, Contending with Norms of Whiteness,” Jennifer Chandler takes on the difficult task of unpacking Whiteness within interracial family structures.
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It’s 1947 and a clever, sheltered Catholic girl of Liverpool Irish working class heritage is studying Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the first one in her family to go to university – and then she discovers that she’s pregnant. The father is also a student at Cambridge, studying law. And he is black.
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Tony Collins, Football Master Spy Book Guild Publishing Ltd 2016-10-27 270 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781910878934 Quentin Cope & Sarita Collins The English Football League’s First Black Manager This is the story of the English football league’s first black manager. Tony Collins was a young man, born into disadvantaged circumstances, in a time period between two…
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In “Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico,” an ambitious rereading of colonial history, Robert C. Schwaller proposes using the Spanish term géneros de gente (types or categories of people) as part of a more nuanced perspective on what these categories of difference meant and how they evolved. His work revises our understanding of racial…
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Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of Andrew Watson so remarkable.
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How the cinematic act of passing embodied, exacerbated, and sometimes alleviated American fears