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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“Charcoal and Cinnamon” explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities.
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Ideas of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixture in a Puerto Rican barrio
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Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence Heyday November 2010 24 pages Paperback, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-59714-145-1 Damany M. Fisher, Professor of History and Political Science Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California California’s Afro-Latino heritage Although it is not generally apparent from paintings and other depictions of early California, many members of the pioneering Anza expeditions…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era Oxford University Press 2014-10-14 320 Pages 30 half-tones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199778805 Michael A. Ross, Associate Professor of History University of Maryland Offers a glimpse into the volatile racial world of Reconstruction era New Orleans Guides readers through…
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The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis. A Narrative Biography Esquiline Hill Press 2012 567 pages (est.) mobi ISBN: 978-1-58863-450-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-58863-451-1 ePub ISBN: 978-1-58863-452-8 Harry Henderson Albert Henderson Edmonia Lewis was the first famous “colored sculptor” and the first to idealize her African and American Indian heritages in stone. She flourished from 1864 through…
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How does one cope with overwhelming grief?
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Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question “Where are you from?”
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Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island’s Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884 New York University Press 238 pages April 2013 Hardback ISBN: 9780814785775 Paperback ISBN: 9781479802227 Katherine Howlett Hayes, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Minnesota The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of…