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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The Public Life of Poetry: An Interview with Natasha Trethewey Los Angeles Review of Books 2013-06-11 Jennifer Chang 1. THE STORY OF NATASHA TRETHEWEY’s life as a poet began with her mother’s death. Until then, though her father is a poet, poetry had not figured in her future plans. She was a 19-year-old college student…
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Marriage, Melanin, and American Racialism Reviews in American History Volume 41, Number 2, June 2013 pages 282-291 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2013.0048 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Adele Logan Alexander, Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 375 pages. Photographs,…
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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century by Circe Sturm (review) The American Indian Quarterly Volume 37, Numbers 1-2, Winter/Spring 2013 pages 269-272 DOI: 10.1353/aiq.2013.0006 Miguel A. Maymí Circe Sturm’s book Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century is an insightful view into the motivations of those…
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‘Plessy v. Ferguson’: Who Was Plessy? The Root 2013-06-10 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Learn about the man whose case led to decades of legal segregation. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 35: Who was the Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson…
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Prodigy and Prejudice The New York Times 1995-12-10 Phyllis Rose Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler. By Kathryn Talalay. Illustrated. 317 pp. New York: Oxford University Press This enthralling, heartbreaking book restores to attention Philippa Schuyler, child prodigy of the 1930’s, pianist, composer, Harlem’s Mozart, “the Shirley Temple of American Negroes.”…
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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.