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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Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival University of Illinois Press May 2013 216 pages 6 x 9 in. 16 black & white photographs, 3 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03751-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07901-6 Jean Muteba Rahier, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies Florida International University…
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The Forging of the Cosmic Race: A Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico University of California Press December 1980 408 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520042803 Colin M. MacLachlan, Professor of History Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Jamie E. Rodríguez, Professor of History University of California, Irvine “The Forging of the Cosmic Race” challenges the widely held notion that…
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The longstanding attempt to legislate Indigenous-Asian relations out of existence continues to cast its shadow today. Cathy Freeman is identified as Australia’s most famous Indigenous sportswoman, but she is also of Chinese descent.
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Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, “The United States of the United Races” reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality…
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The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project New York University Press May 2013 303 pages Cloth ISBN: 9780814790687 Kelly E. Happe, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Women’s Studies University of Georgia In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome,…
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A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 Duke University Press 2007 256 pages 29 illus., 8 tables, 1 map Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4081-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4060-7 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature…
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Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia University of Western Australia Publishing March 2006 384 pages 250 x 170 mm Hardcover ISBN: 9781920694418 Regina Ganter, Professor, School of Humanities Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Awards Won – 2007 NSW Premier’s Awards (Community and Regional History Prize) Won – 2007 Ernest Scott History Prize Australian histories too…