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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First detailed study of “literary race” in eighteenth-century America
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European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe University of Minnesota Press 2011 304 pages 6 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7016-1 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7015-4 Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European…
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Annette Kellerman, Rose Quong and Merle Oberon were internationally successful ‘Australian’ performers of the first half of the twentieth century. Kellerman was a swimmer, diver, lecturer, and silent-film star, Quong an actor, lecturer and writer who forged a career in London and New York, and Oberon one of the most celebrated film stars of the…
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In “The Color of Our Future,” young journalist Farai Chideya explores how members of the next generation deal with race in their own lives and how the decisions they make determine America’s ethnic future.
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Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba Duke University Press 2015 376 pages 27 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5918-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5937-1 Jalane D. Schmidt, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban…