Mixed Race Studies

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  • ‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired

    ‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired Feminist Review(on-Line) Volume 65, Issue 1 June 2000 pages 22 – 48 DOI: 10.1080/014177800406921 Patricia Mohammed, Head and Lecturer Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Unit University of the West Indies, Kingston,…

  • Belonging to Britain

    Belonging to Britain The Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto 2008-11-14 Video Length: 00:46:36 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University In her lecture, “Belonging to Britain”, Hazel Carby looks at the historic relationship between England and Jamaica, including the history of the slave…

  • Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders

    Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders Texas A&M University Press 2003 320 pages 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-58544-346-8 John Francis Burke, Professor of Political Science and Chair University of St. Thomas, Houston Foreword by Virgilio Elizondo It can come as no surprise that the ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing.…

  • Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850–2000

    In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century.

  • The Woman of Colour

    The Woman of Colour Broadview Press 2007-01-01 268 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781551111766 / 1551111764 Written by: Anonymous Edited by: Lyndon J. Dominique, Assistant Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield,…

  • Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture

    Hybridity and its Discontents: Politics, Science, Culture Routledge 2000-08-24 320 pages Trim Size: 234×156 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-19402-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-19403-7 Edited by Avtar Brah, Professor in Sociology Birbek University of London Annie Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture Birkbeck University of London Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of ‘hybridity’ –…

  • Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States

    Racial Mixture and Affirmative Action: The Cases of Brazil and the United States The American Historical Review Volume 108, Number 5 December 2003 Thomas E. Skidmore, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History Emeritus Brown University For me, as a historian of Brazil, North America’s “one-drop rule” has always seemed odd. No other society in…

  • Race in another America: the significance of skin color in Brazil

    his is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil.

  • The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals

    The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals Russell Sage Foundation October 2002 391 pages Hardcover: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-657-9, ISBN-10: 0-87154-657-4 Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-658-6, ISBN-10: 0-87154-658-2 Edited by Joel Perlmann, Senior Scholar and Program Director Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology Harvard University The change in…

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

    Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial…