Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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“As to her race, its secret is loudly revealed”: Winnifred Eaton’s Revision of North American Identity MELUS Volume 32, Number 2 (Summer 2007) pages 31-53 Karen E. H. Skinazi, Instructor of English University of Alberta At the tum of the twentieth century, Quebec-born Winnifred Eaton, a Chinese British woman who used the pseudonym “Onoto Watanna,”…
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Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, During Slavery Alabama Law Review Volume 59 (2008) pages 1501-1555 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law This Article examines in detail the local and trial records of a nineteenth-century Texas case to tell the story…
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Suing for Freedom: Interracial Sex, Slave Law, and Racial Identity in the Post-Revolutionary and Antebellum South North Carolina Law Review Volume 82, Issue 2 (January 2004) pages 535- Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law Introduction A. Two Stories In 1823 in Sumner County, Tennessee, Phebe, a “colored woman”…
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The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance Cambridge University Press August 2006 256 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Weight: 0.55 kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521865395 Paperback ISBN: 9780521073042 Adobe eBook Reader ISBN: 9780511239465 Mobipocket eBook ISBN: 9780511247484 Ezra Tawil, Associate Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York…
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Based largely on data collected from oral history interviews, this study examines the construction of triracial ethnoracial identities (African American-Caucasian-American Indian). Here in-depth narratives and analyses of two triracial family histories surface the complex, dynamic, and interactional social contingencies that act on individual and family psychologies to share ethnic identity; these processes are illustrative of…
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Census Data Presents Rise in Multiracial Population of Youths The New York Times 2011-03-24 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent WASHINGTON — Among American children, the multiracial population has increased almost 50 percent, to 4.2 million, since 2000, making it the fastest growing youth group in the country. The number of people of all ages who identified…