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: United States
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Novel focuses on region’s multi-ethnic heritage The Coalfield Progress Post Norton, Virginia 2012-07-06 Katie Dunn, Staff Reporter BIG STONE GAP — America is often described as a melting pot, a nation where different ethnicities and cultures have assimilated into a cohesive union. In her recently published novel, Washed in the Blood, author Lisa Alther, a…
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Constructing Dialogue, Constructing Identites: Mixed Heritage Identity Construction in “Half and Half” Georgetown University 2009-04-16 55 pages Anissa Jane Sorokin A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Language and Communication This…
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HIST 387 004: Inventing the Nation in Latin America George Mason University Spring 2012 Matt Karush, Associate Professor of History Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Latin Americans have struggled to define themselves and their nations. This quest for identity has involved governments, intellectuals, and artists, but also ordinary men and women. And the results…
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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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A Mulatto Area Gets Own School The New York Times 1962-09-16 page 73 Hedrick Smith, Special to the New York Times Desegregation Moves Roi Louisiana Caste System BURAS, La., Sept. 13—Freda’s Hi-Lo Bar sits just off State Highway 23 as the road chases the Mississippi River on its last 100 miles from the suburbs of…
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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…