Mixed Race Studies

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  • Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley

    For the first time, all the proslavery—but also pro-black—writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (1765-1843) appear together in one volume. Kingsley was a slave trader and the owner of a large plantation near Jacksonville in what was then Spanish East Florida. He married one of his slaves and had children with several others.

  • In the Middle, In Between: Cultural Hybridity, Community Rejection, and the Destabilization of Race in Percival Everett’s “Erasure”, Adam Mansbach’s “Angry Black White Boy”, and Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia”

    In the Middle, In Between: Cultural Hybridity, Community Rejection, and the Destabilization of Race in Percival Everett’s “Erasure”, Adam Mansbach’s “Angry Black White Boy”, and Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia” Howard University 2011 84 pages Publication Number: AAT 1495397 ISBN: 9781124728568 Laura R. Perez A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Howard University…

  • ‘Obama’s My Dad’: Mixed Race Suspects, Political Anxiety and the New Imperialism

    ‘Obama’s My Dad’: Mixed Race Suspects, Political Anxiety and the New Imperialism thirdspace: a journal of feminist theory & culture Volume 10, Number 1 (2011) Rachel Gorman, Lecturer Women and Gender Studies Institute University of Toronto In this article I will argue that the ideology of white supremacy is currently being reproduced as an ideology…

  • Between Black and White: An Exploratory Investigation of Biracialism in the United States and South Africa

    Between Black and White: An Exploratory Investigation of Biracialism in the United States and South Africa McNair Scholars Journal Volume 11, Issue 1 (2007) Article 7 Whitney Laster Grand Valley State University The United States and South Africa both endured periods of intense racism produced from rigid social hierarchies. While European populations controlled these institutions,…

  • Biracialism in American Society: A Comparative View

    Biracialism in American Society: A Comparative View American Anthropologist Volume 57, Issue 6 (December 1955) pages 1253–1263 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1955.57.6.02a00150 Ruth Landes Our culture exercises certain values forcefully through our interracial arrangements, principally Negro and white. Comparison with other white-governed societies receiving Negroes reveals the uniqueness in American developments, above all in the operations of Negro…

  • A Mystery of a People

    A Mystery of  a People WUNC 91.5, Chapel Hill The State of Things North Carolina Public Radio 2011-07-28 Isaac-davy Aronson, Host Questions of racial identity and cultural heritage have long surrounded a group of Appalachians called the Melungeons. In recent years, curiosities have been piqued about this loosely connected group of people, spawning DNA testing,…

  • The American Negro and Race Blending

    The American Negro and Race Blending The Sociological Review Volume a2, Issue 4 (October 1909) pages 349–360 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1909.tb01972.x Frances Hoggan The problem of the colour population of America is many-sided. Perhaps the most vital question to be considered is that of the amalgamation of the races: how far it has reached or may reach,…

  • The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world

    The curious case of Barack Obama: A postracial black man in a racialized world University of Houston, Clear Lake July 2009 180 pages Publication Number: AAT 1471005 ISBN: 9781109355192 Joel G. Carter THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The University of Houston Clear Lake In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF…

  • The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race

    The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race Henry Highland Garnet Edited by Paul Royster University of Nebraska, Lincoln Steam press of J. C. Kneeland and Co. 1848 31 pages The text of this electronic edition is based on the original published at Troy, New York, in 1848. It was…