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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Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 352 pages 7 halftones Hardback ISBN: 9780801886805 Jennifer M. Spear, Associate Professor of History Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Lousiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association…
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Unfixing Race: Class, Power, and Identity in an Interracial Family The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 102, Number 3 (July, 1994) pages 349-380 Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., Professor of American Religious History Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Santa Clara University This article is also available as a chapter in Martha Hode’s (ed.) Sex,…
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Why Race Isn’t as ‘Black’ and ‘White’ as We Think The New York Times 2005-10-31 Brent Staples People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a “white” name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as “an anchorman’s name” and accused me of making it up. For the record, it’s a…
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Miscegenation and the Free Negro in Antebellum “Anglo” Alabama: A Reexamination of Southern Race Relations The Journal of American History Volume 68, Number 1 (June 1981) pages 16-34 Gary B. Mills (1944-2002), Associate Professor of History University of Alabama, Gadsden More than a quarter-century ago, the southern historian Frank L. Owsley predicted: “If the history…
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The Social Negotiation of Ambiguous In-Between Stigmatized Identities: Investigating Identity Processes in Multiracial and Bisexual People University of Massachusetts, Boston December 2011 234 pages Vali Dagmar Kahn A Dissertation Presented by Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY…
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Census: Few among Az’s tribes claim to be multiracial Tucson Sentinel 2012-01-26 Victoria Pelham Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The number of American Indians who claimed to be multiracial jumped sharply over the last decade, but not so much in Arizona, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. The bureau said the total number of American Indian…