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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In “Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses,” Betsy Erkkilä argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea of America itself as it was constituted and…
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A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana University Press of Mississippi 2012-09-20 450 pages 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, 400+ color illustrations, foreword, introduction, bibliography, index of artists Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61703-690-3 Edited By: Michael Sartisky, President Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities J. Richard Gruber, Director Emeritus Ogden Museum…
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“Black & Blue” is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients.
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Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community University of Texas Press August 1998 320 pages ISBN-10: 0292728190; ISBN-13: 978-0292728196 Edmund Gordon, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin This book is out of print. Based on a decade the author spent among the African-Caribbean “Creole” people on Nicaragua’s southern Caribbean coast, Disparate…
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James Douglas: Father of British Columbia Dundurn Press October 2009 240 pages 5.5 in x 8.5 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55488-409-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-77070-564-7 Julia H. Ferguson James Douglas’s story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land,…
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Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line Dundurn Publishing February 2003 264 pages 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-89621-982-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-55488-161-1 eBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978-1-45971-478-6 Catherine Slaney Foreword by: Daniel G. Hill, III (1923-2003) Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life.…
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Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846–1948 Duke University Press 2003 320 pages Illustrations: 9 b&w photos, 5 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3092-9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3080-6 Nancy P. Appelbaum, Associate Professor of History Binghamton University, State University of New York Colombia’s western Coffee Region is renowned for the whiteness of its inhabitants, who…
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The Evolution and Genetics of Latin American Populations Cambridge University Press December 2001 528 pages 12 b/w illus. 128 tables 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 9780521652759 Paperback ISBN: ISBN:9780521022392 eBook ISBN: 9780511837128 Francisco M. Salzano Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Maria C. Bortolini Universidade Federal…
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 New York University Press October 2011 228 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780814752555 Paper ISBN: 9780814752562 Julia H. Lee, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies University of Texas, Austin 2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association’s prize in Literary Studies Why do black characters…