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: Canada
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Any Known Blood Harper Collins Canada 2001-09-20 528 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780006391760; ISBN10: 0006391761 Lawrence Hill Langston Cane V is 38, divorced and working as a government speechwriter, until he’s fired for sabotaging the minister’s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the eldest son of a white mother and prominent black father, to…
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Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice University of Arizona Press 1998 181 pages 6.0 x 9.0 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-1633-9 Kathleen M. Donovan, Professor and Department Head of English South Dakota State University, Brookings Who in a society can speak, and under what circumstances? These questions are at the heart of both Native…
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Biracial and Multiracial Students: New Directions for Student Services, Number 123 Jossey-Bass an imprint of John Wiley & Sons October 2008 88 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-470-42219-9 Edited by Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Paul Shang, Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students University of Oregon Editors…
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On a May morning in 1939, eighteen-year-old Velma Demerson and her lover were having breakfast when two police officers arrived to take her away. Her crime was loving a Chinese man, a “crime” that was compounded by her pregnancy and subsequent mixed-race child.
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The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many Aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. “The People Who Own Themselves” reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais’ family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri region, and the American Southwest to…
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Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples (Second Edition) University of Illinois Press 1993 Paper: 978-0-252-06321-3 352 pages Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus. Native American Studies and Anthropology University of California, Davis This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and…