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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“Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century,” talk by Dorothy Roberts University of Michigan Hatcher Library Gallery, Room 100 913 S. University Avenue Ann Arbor, Michigan 2013-04-04, 16:00-17:30 CDT (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…
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Appo Will Serve Six Months The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thursday, 1895-10-03 page 12, column 2 Source: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection George Appo, the Chinese half-bred, who obtained notoriety especially through his testimony before the Lexow senate investigating committee, and who pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree in the stabbing of Policeman Michael…
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The Urban Underworld in Late Nineteenth-Century New York: The Autobiography of George Appo Bedford/St. Martin’s 2013 208 pages Paper ISBN-10: 0-312-60762-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-60762-3 George Appo (1856-1930) Edited with an Introduction by: Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Professor of History Loyola University, Chicago Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to…
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In George Appo’s world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made as much as a skilled laborer made in a year.
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical [Review by Alan Gomberg] Talkin’ Broadway 2013-03-27 Alan Gomberg Much of Todd Decker’s Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical should prove fascinating to readers who have a deep interest in the creation and performance history of this classic, much-revived and -revised musical. Many of those…
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical Oxford University Press October 2012 328 pages ISBN13: 9780199759378; ISBN10: 0199759375 Todd Decker, Assistant Professor, Musicology Washington University in St. Louis Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing…
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Some commentators predict that ethnoracial distinctions in the United States will disappear in the twenty-first century. Perhaps they are right, but there is ample cause to doubt it. And a glance at the history of Brazil, where physical mixing even of blacks and whites has magnificently failed to achieve social justice and to eliminate a…
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“Founding Mothers:” White Mothers of Biracial Children in the Multiracial Movement (1979-2000) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut April 2012 142 pages Alicia Doo Castagno A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in American Studies TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements…