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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Problems with Plaçage: Historical Imagination and Femmes de couleurs libres in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans Bridges: A Journal of Student Research Coastal Carolina University Issue 3 (Winter 2009) Philip Whalen, Associate Professor of History Coastal Carolina University This essay compares two approaches to understanding the condition of free women of color who struggled to…
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In Their Own Words with Michele Elam The Human Experience: inside the humanities at Stanford University 2011-04-15 Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor of English and Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education Stanford University In this installment of “In Their Own Words” English professor Michele Elam discusses her latest research, which…
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Review of Kessler, John S.; Ball, Donald B., North From the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio H-Net Reviews June 2002 Penny Messinger, Assistant Professor of History Daemen College, Amherst, New York John S. Kessler, Donald B. Ball. North From the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon…
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North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio Mercer University Press 2001 220 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780865547032 John S. Kessler Donald B. Ball The newest book in Mercer University Press’ new series The Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature is North from the Mountains: A Folk History of…
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Mixed Race on Campus: Multiracial Student Identities and Issues in Higher Education NCORE 2011 24 Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education San Francisco, California 2011-05-31 through 2011-06-04 Thursday, 2011-06-02, 13:15–16:15 PDT (Local Time) Eric Hamako, Doctoral Candidate Social Justice Education Program University of Massachusetts, Amherst Multiracial and Mixed‑Race students are…
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The Family Changes Colour: Interracial Families in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Screen Volume 43 Issue 3 (Autumn 2002) pages 271-292 DOI: 10.1093/screen/43.3.271 Nicola J. Evans, Lecturer of Media and Cultural Studies University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia How profound the hatred, how deep the bigotry… that wakens in this image of black life blooming within…
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Mark Tawin’s Mississippi: Race, 1800-1850 Mark Twain’s Mississippi Project Partners: Northern Illinois University Libraries, The Newberry Library, The St. Louis Mercantile Library, Tulane University Libraries and University of California, Berkeley Made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services 2005 Peter J. Kastor, Associate Professor of History and American Culture Studies…