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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Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History University Press of Kentucky 1999-12-16 224 pages 6 x 9 photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8131-2143-7 Janet Gabler-Hover, Professor of English Georgia State University Winner of the SAMLA 2001 Book Award Hagar, the Old Testament Egyptian heroine who bore Abraham’s son at the behest of Sarah, was…
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Cinematic Identity: Anatomy of a Problem Film University of Minnesota Press 2007 200 pages 24 b&w photos, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-3412-5 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-3411-8 Cindy Patton, Canada Research Chair in Community Culture and Health Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Though largely forgotten today, the 1949 film Pinky had a significant…
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Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority The New Press January 2016 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62097-115-4 Steve Phillips A New York Times bestseller, Brown Is the New White takes an unvarnished look at the history of whites and people of color…
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The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016-04-06 222 pages ISBN-13: 978-1522998952 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches Dmae Roberts, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family traces four decades of what it means to be a mixed-race adult who sometimes…
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This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade.
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A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy University of North Carolina Press 2016-05-02 464 pages 9 halftones, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2795-3 Carolyn L. Karcher During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the…
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The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan University of Chicago Press 2016 264 pages 8 color plates, 49 halftones 6 x 9 Gísli Pálsson, Professor of Anthropology University of Iceland The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of…
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atrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In most western states, it was difficult if not impossible for Native women to inherit property, raise…
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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians University of North Carolina Press September 2015 270 pages 8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2443-3 Angela Pulley Hudson, Associate Professor of History Texas A&M University In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed…
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Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.