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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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…