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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This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.”
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891) The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as…
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From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of “Girl, Woman,” Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism
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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War University of North Carolina Press September 2012 352 pages 17 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-2190-6 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-3812-9 David S. Cecelski AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS 2012 North Caroliniana Book Award, The North Caroliniana Society Ragan Old North State…
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The reality, as “An American Color” explains, is that on the surface, New Orleans did have a racial and social system that confounded the more prudent and established black-white binary at work in the social rhetoric of the British-descended states further north. But this was not unique, especially within the United States.