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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Category: United States
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American Lives: The ‘Strange’ Tale Of Clarence King National Public Radio 2010-08-18 Steve Inskeep, Host Morning Edition U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library Ada Copeland, an African-American woman born in Georgia just months before that state seceded from the Union, moved to New York City in the mid-1880s. There, she met a man named James Todd.…
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line The Penguin Press 2009-02-05 384 pages 5.98 x 9.01in Hardcover ISBN 9781594202001 Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History Princeton University National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West and the woman…
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An intensely dramatic true story, “Forsaking All Others” recounts the fascinating case of an interracial couple who attempted—in defiance of society’s laws and conventions—to formalize their relationship in the post-Reconstruction South. It was an affair with tragic consequences, one that entangled the protagonists in a miscegenation trial and, ultimately, a desperate act of revenge.
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The Invisible Minorities: Identity Construction of Multiracial Asian Americans San Jose State University August 2003 136 pages Jennifer Huyhn Thi Ahn Morrison, Lecturer AY-A of Communication Studies San Jose State University A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Communication Studies at San Jose State University in partial fulfulliment of the requriements for the…
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American novelist & memoirist Danzy Senna to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers’ Series University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Wednesday, 2011-03-16 19:00 EST (Local Time) Danzy Senna is the author of two novels and a memoir that focus on issues of race, gender and cultural identity. Her debut…