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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A concise presentation of the manner in which many Negroes in America … have abandoned their… afiliation with Negroes
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Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, “Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians” examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
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Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier University of Nebraska Press 2005 202 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2016-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-6841-8 Andrew K. Frank, Allen Morris Associate Professor of History Florida Atlantic University Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in…
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“A name creates life patterns,” Allison Adelle Hedge Coke writes, “which form and shape a life; my life, like my name, must have been formed many times over then handed to me to realize.” “Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer” is Hedge Coke’s narrative of that realization, the award-winning poet and writer’s searching account of her life…
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William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader University of Nebraska Press 2007 212 pages 9 photographs, 2 maps, figure, index, 2 appendixes Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4327-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2498-8 Theresa M. Schenck, Associate Professor of Life Sciences Communications and American Indian Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison This is the first full-length…
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Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America New York University Press November 2012 272 pages 10 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814765463 Paper ISBN: 9780814765470 Antonio López, Assistant Professor of English George Washington University In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a…
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Embodying Belonging: Racializing Okinawan Diaspora in Bolivia and Japan University Of Hawai‘i Press May 2010 272 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3344-2 Taku Suzuki, Assistant Professor of International Studies Denison University, Granville, Ohio Embodying Belonging is the first full-length study of a Okinawan diasporic community in South America and Japan. Under extraordinary conditions throughout the twentieth century (Imperial…
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Double Native: A moving memoir about living across two cultures University of Queensland Press 2012-01-03 304 pages ISBN: 978 0 7022 3917 5 Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung Growing up ‘on country’ on the west coast of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula in the 1970s and ’80s, Fiona Wirrer-George Oochunyung had an idyllic traditional life. At the age…
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The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia Melbourne University Publishing March 2002 364 pages 235 x 154 mm, 25 b/w illustrations & 4 maps Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-522-84989-9 Warwick Anderson, Research Professor of History University of Sydney Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004 In this lucid and original…