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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African Europeans: An Untold History Basic Books 2021-05-04 304 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 9781541619678 eBook ISBN-13: 9781541619937 Audiobook Downloadable ISBN-13: 9781549136627 Olivette Otele, Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of Enslavement University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian…
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For years, people have asked Gail Song Bantum and Brian Bantum to reveal the secret to their marriage as a multiracial Christian couple, each with a high-profile ministry calling. This book reveals the lessons, mistakes, and principles that have helped the Bantums navigate race, family history, and gender dynamics in their twenty-plus years of marriage,…
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Marguerite Penrose’s is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father.
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My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan Publishers) 2022-05-03 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780374604875 Audio ISBN: 9781250856319 Digital Audio ISBN: 9781250856326 e-Book ISBN: 9780374604882 Will Jawando, Councilmember Montgomery County, Maryland Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative…
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A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment.
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This book explores the life and contributions of groundbreaking attorney, Elreta Melton Alexander Ralston (1919-98). In 1945 Alexander became the first African American woman to graduate from Columbia Law School.
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“Ethnic Positioning in Southwestern Mixed Heritage Writing” explores how Southwestern writers and visual artists provide an opportunity to turn a stigmatized identity into a self-conscious holder of valuable assets, cultural attitudes, and memories.
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A restoration of the agency and influence of free African-descended women in colonial Mexico through their traces in archives