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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Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a “quadroon,” she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich…
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“Chinese Cubans” shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, López draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim.
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What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white?
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White Without Soap: Philanthropy, Caste and Exclusion in Colonial Victoria 1835-1888, A Political Economy of Race University of Melbourne Custom Book Centre 2010 318 pages Paperback ISBN: 0980759420, 9780980759426 Marguerita Stephens Explores the connections between nineteenth century imperial anthropology, racial ‘science’ and the imposition of colonising governance on the Aborigines of Port Phillip/Victoria between 1835 and…
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Leslie Helm’s decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family’s 140 years in Japan, beginning with his German great grandfather, who worked as a military adviser in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family’s poignant experiences of love and war help Helm learn to embrace…
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In this social and economic history of the Métis of the Red River Settlement, specifically the parishes of St Francois-Xavier and St Andrew’s, Gerhard Ens argues that the Métis participated with growing confidence in two worlds: one Indian and pre-capitalist, the other European and capitalist. Ens maintains that Métis identity was not defined by biology…
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The Métis of Senegal: Urban Life and Politics in French West Africa Indiana University Press 2013-03-18 296 pages 9 b&w illustrations, 5 maps 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-00674-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-00673-8 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-0-253-00705-6 Hilary Jones, Assistant Professor of History University of Maryland, College Park The Métis of Senegal is a history of…
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Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity Beacon Press 2001 232 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-080705011-8 Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut Selected as One of the Village Voice’s Favorite 25 Books of 2001 In this…