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 Equality of the Human Races University of Illinois Press 2002 (First published in 1885) 536 pages 5.5 x 8 in. 6 black & white photographs, 12 tables Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07102-7 Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) Translated from the French by: Asselin Charles Introduction by: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Rhode Island College Positivist Anthropology This…
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom University of California Press February 2005 329 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520241329 Paperback ISBN: 9780520250024 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Frederick Jackson…
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“Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany,” republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall’s experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II.
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The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism Indiana University Press 2007-05-22 320 pages 22 b&w photos 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-21927-5; Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-34902-6 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian…
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Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America Cornell University Press 2010-08-05 248 pages 7 Illustrations 6.1 x 9.3 in ISBN-10: 0801446422; ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4642-9 Gwenn A. Miller, Assistant Professor of History College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia’s only overseas…
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A long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, “What Comes Naturally” traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States–laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other races. Peggy Pascoe demonstrates how these laws were enacted and applied…
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What is multiracialism—and what are the theoretical consequences and practical costs of asserting a multiracial identity? Arguing that the multiracial movement bolsters, rather than subverts, traditional categories of race, Rainier Spencer critically assesses current scholarship in support of multiracial identity.
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One of the American West’s bloodiest—and least-known—massacres is searingly re-created in this generation-spanning history of native-white intermarriage.