Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies

2010-02-26

Blood-Lines That Waver South: Hybridity, the “South,” and American Bodies Southern Quarterly Volume 41, Number 1 (Fall 2003) pages 39-52 Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor of English University of Florida In the paper I investigate a certain kind of imaginative response, especially on the part of mixed-race artists, to the prevalence of racialized discourses of modernity…
Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915–1935

2010-02-26

Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915–1935 McFarland Publishers 2007 196 pages 7 photos, bibliography, index softcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-2990-5 Roger A. Salerno, Professor of Sociology Pace University, New York Between 1915 and 1935 the University of Chicago was the center for the production of innovative sociological research that…
Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census

2010-02-26

Place, scale and the racial claims made for multiracial children in the 1990 US Census Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 32, Issue 3 (March 2009) pages 522 – 547 Steven R. Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia Richard Wright, Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Geography and Public Affairs and Geography Department Chair Dartmouth College…
“Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author]

2010-02-26

“Remarkable” Mixed-Race Family in 20th Century Is Subject of Book Discussion [with Book Signing by the Author] James Madison Building Dining Room A, Sixth Floor, J 101 Independence Aveune, SE Washington, DC 2010-03-03, 12:30 EST (Local Time) Webcast Time: 00:59:24 Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University “Parallel Worlds” Focuses on “the Enduring (In)significance…
Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South

2010-02-25

Race and the “One Drop Rule” in the Post-Reconstruction South Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-03-17 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Many people, perhaps most, think of “race” as an objective reality. Historically, however, racial categorization has been unstable, contradictory, and arbitrary. Consider the term “passing.” Most of…
Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879

2010-02-25

In this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America’s most marginalized groups—free women of color in the rural South.
A conversation with Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies

2010-02-24

A conversation with Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 Victoria E. Bynum, author of The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies, discusses three Unionist strongholds in the South, Q: There seems no…
The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies

2010-02-24

The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies University of North Carolina Press April 2010 240 pp. 6.125 x 9.25, 9 illus. 1 map, notes, bibl., index Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3381-0 Large Print ISBN: 978-0-8078-7909-2 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos In The Long Shadow of the…
Husband And Wife Duo Paved The Way For Blacks In Diplomacy [Interview with Adele Logan Alexander]

2010-02-22

Husband And Wife Duo Paved The Way For Blacks In Diplomacy [Interview with Adele Logan Alexander] Tell Me More National Public Radio 2010-02-10 Michel Martin, Host of Tell Me More with Adele Logan Alexander, Professor of History George Washington University Tell Me More continues its Black History Month series with a conversation with Adele Logan…
Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

2010-02-22

This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author’s own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans–both in slavery and in freedom.

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