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 Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution University of North Carolina Press June 2016 Approx. 640 pages 21 halftones, 1 figs., 7 maps, 33 tables, notes, index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-2663-5 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Robert G. Parkinson, Assistant Professor…
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The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban and Afro-Cuban identities.
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Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Fulcrum Publishing May 2014 176 pages 8 X 10 Paperback ISBN: 9781938486296 Joel Christian Gill Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles…
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Kafka’s Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic Northwestern University Press June 2016 184 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8101-3286-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8101-3285-6 E-book ISBN: 978-0-8101-3287-0 Mark Christian Thompson, Associate Professor of English Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Kafka’s Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka’s major works engage…
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With “A Seminole Legend,” Betty Mae Jumper joins the ranks of Native American women who are coming forward to tell their life experiences.
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Legend of the Free State of Jones University Press of Mississippi 2009-10-07 143 pages 3 maps, 7 b&w illustrations 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches Paper ISBN: 978-1-60473-571-0 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-60473-572-7 Rudy H. Leverett The original, full accounting of a rebellion in the heart of Dixie A maverick, unionist district in the heart of the…
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In “Unreasonable Histories,” Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book’s core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.