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 study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.
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The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown.
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Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 HarperCollins 2011-03-15 336 pages Trimsize: 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780062009234; ISBN10: 0062009230 eBook ISBN: 9780062078650; ISBN10: 0062078658 MariNaomi From her father and mother’s interracial marriage to her own “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” moments on the playground—from drug experimentation…
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The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization Routledge 2002-09-06 272 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-92879-3 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-92878-6 Serge Gruzinski, Research Director National Scientific Research Center (CNRS, Paris) Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers…
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The Mestizo State: Reading Race in Modern Mexico University of Minnesota Press June 2012 248 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5637-0 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5636-3 Joshua Lund, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Pittsburgh The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been…
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“Pig Candy” is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he’d escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed “Black, White, Other,” comes to understand…