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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“Imperial Educación” examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries’ citizens.
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Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of “40 acres and a mule”—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In “I’ve Been Here All the While,” we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this…
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London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s—as seen through the eyes of a former slave
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Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother’s birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles—seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter—and continually asks herself: Why do I feel called to make this journey?
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Descent Tarpaulin Sky Press 2020-06-02 120 pages 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches Paperback ISBN: 9781939460219 Lauren Russell In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in the Confederate Army. After his return from the Civil War, he fathered twenty children by three of…
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In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America.
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Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South University of North Carolina Press October 2021 76 pages 6.125 x 9.25 14 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6439-2 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6438-5 Warren Eugene Milteer Jr., Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro On the eve of the Civil War, most people…
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One of the UK’s brightest and best comedians takes an incisive look at race and belonging.
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In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood.