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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Lawrence Powell delivers a gripping history of New Orleans in ‘Accidental City’ New Orleans Times-Picayune 2012-04-02 Chris Waddington At first, I was disappointed to hear that Lawrence Powell’s history of the Crescent City ended with the Battle of New Orleans. I wanted the Tulane University scholar to bring me a little closer to the present.…
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans Harvard University Press March 2012 448 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780674059870 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 19 halftones, 2 maps Lawrence N. Powell, Professor of History Tulane University This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing…
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A Contested Presence: Free Blacks in Antebellum Mississippi, 1820–1860 Mississippi History Now: An online publication of the Mississippi Historical Society August 2000 Denoral Davis, Profesor of History Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi During its first half century as a territory and state (1810-1860), Mississippi was an agrarian-frontier society. Its population was made up of four…
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Manumission in nineteenth-century Virginia Cliometrica: A Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History Volume 5, Issue 2 (June 2011) pages 145-164 DOI: 10.1007/s11698-010-0056-x Howard Bodenhorn, Professor of Economics Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina Using previously unexploited data, this paper explores the ages at which slaves were manumitted. OLS estimates reveal that mixed-race slaves, slaves in…
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Finding Grace: Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Color Line Simon & Schuster July 2007 296 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0743200543; ISBN-13: 9780743200547 Shirlee Taylor Haizlip In her widely acclaimed, bestselling memoir, The Sweeter the Juice, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip asked us to redefine our concepts of race and family by examining her biracial…
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This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…
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Social Construction of Ethnicity Versus Personal Experience: The Case of Afro-Amerasians Journal of Comparative Family Studies Volume 29, Issue 2 (Summer 1998) pages 255-267 Teresa Kay Williams Michael C. Thornton, Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison The article focuses on the existence of ethnic group differences in the U.S. and how the subgroup…
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Just Finished Reading: Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books. 2012-04-17 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky The practice of slavery created many complications. Not the least of these were the children produced by relationships…
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The Winton Triangle The State of Things WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio 2011-06-17 Frank Stasio, Host Susan Davis, Senior Producer Marvin Jones, Historian Chowan Discovery Group More Americans marked at least two boxes for “race” on the 2010 Census than ever before. The country may not be increasingly multiracial but it certainly is increasingly…
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Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks: Norbert Rillieux and a Revolution in Sugar Processing 2002 Judah Ginsberg Portrait of Norbert Rillieux (undated). Dedicated April 18, 2002 at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana Norbert Rillieux: Chemist and Engineer The birth record on file in New Orleans…