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 Story of French New Orleans: History of a Creole City University Press of Mississippi January 2016 208 pages (approx.) 1 map, bibliography, index 6 x 9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9781496804860 Dianne Guenin-Lelle, Professor of French Albion College, Albion, Michigan Why New Orleans is considered America’s distinctly French city What is it about the city…
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Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race New York University Press April 2014 273 pages 12 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9781479812981 Paper ISBN: 9781479859498 Ellen Samuels, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English University of Wisconsin, Madison In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white,…
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Carolyn Abraham explores the stunning power and ethical pitfalls of using genetic tests to answer questions of genealogy—by cracking the genome of her own family.
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Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.
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Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture Rutgers University Press 2015-05-12 256 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7070-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7069-3 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7071-6 epub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7537-7 Jennifer Ann Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an…