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 Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America Verso Books November 2012 (Originally published in August, 1997) 422 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781844677702 Ebook ISBN: 9781844678440 Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) Introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. On the steps…
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Mixed Race Children: A Study of Identity Unwin Hyman July 1987 230 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0043701683 8.5 x 5.7 x 1 inches Anne Wilson (1955-) Wilson’s research was conducted in England from October 1979 to May 1980 and focused on children of white/black (mainly West Indian) parentage. Using ‘snowball’ methods of recruitment, she was able…
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave Lushena Books 2014-02-20 (Originally published in 1849) 104 pages 0.2 x 4.9 x 7.9 inches Paperback ISBN-10: 1631820060 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1631820069 Henry Bibb (1815-1854) Read the entire narrative, courtesy of Documenting the American South (DocSouth) here.
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The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control Verso Books November 2012 (Originally published in August, 1997) 372 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781844677696 Ebook ISBN: 9781844678433 Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) Introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. When the first Africans arrived…
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British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 Ashgate Publishing November 2014 160 pages 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4724-3088-5 eBook PDF ISBN: 978-1-4724-3089-2 eBook ePUB ISBN: 978-1-4724-3090-8 Kathryn S. Freeman, Associate Professor of English University of Miami, Miami, Florida In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn Freeman…
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Using cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as “Tell about the South,” “bro•ken/ground,” and “Family Name.”
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America Penguin Books 2012 256 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142000793 eBook ISBN: 9781101161500 Richard Rodriguez In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the…
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Isamu was a boy of the East and the West. Born in the United States to a Japanese father and Scotch-Irish American mother, Isamu grew up in Japan. From his earliest years he felt the tug of his biracial heritage, never quite fitting in or thinking he belonged. Pleasure came, however, from the natural world.…
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Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription Lexington Books May 2012 142 pages Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-7190-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-9057-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-7191-2 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right…