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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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Random House 2012-09-18 432 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7 Tom Reiss Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo—a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count…
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Beyond Race: Human Biological Diversity (Third Edition) Cognella 2013 Joelle Presson, Affiliate Research Assistant Professor Department of Biology University of Maryland Jan Jenner University of Alabama, Birmingham Race. It’s an idea that dominates our culture and continues to generate societal tensions. But what really are human races? Are races meaningful in a biological sense? What…
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Race: The History of an Idea in the West Johns Hopkins University Press May 1996 464 pages Paperback (on-demand) ISBN: 9780801852237 Ivan Hannaford In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it,…
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Blue Skies and Thunder: Farm Boy, Pilot, Inventor, TSA Officer, and WW II Soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team iUniverse 2009-12-21 296 pages E-Book ISBN: 978-1-44018-258-7 Virgil W. Westdale with Stephanie A. Gerdes In 1942, Virgil Westdale was a successful young flight instructor when the government ousted him from the Air Corps and demoted…
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The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family Free Press (an Imprint of Simon & Schuster) October 2012 320 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781451627480 eBook ISBN: 9781451627619 Joe Mozingo “My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes prize-winning journalist Joe Mozingo. Growing up, he knew that his mother’s ancestors were…
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It’s Not Always Black And White: Caught Between Two Worlds Outskirts Press 2013-01-18 100 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781478716693 John Reed, Ph.D. John Reed knows from experience how difficult the life of a biracial person can be. He was born in Germany after World War II to a German-Caucasian mother and an African-American father. The difficulty…
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Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being ‘Half’ in Japan Multilingual Matters 2009-12-03 280 pages 210 x 148 (A5) Paperback ISBN: 9781847692320 Hardback ISBN: 9781847692337 Laurel Kamada, Lecturer Professor Tohoku University, Japan This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan…
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In “Chocolate and Corn Flour,” Laura A. Lewis explores the history and contemporary culture of San Nicolás, focusing on the ways in which local inhabitants experience and understand race, blackness, and indigeneity, as well as on the cultural values that outsiders place on the community and its residents.