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: Women
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Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin Far, Winnifred presented herself as Japanese American and published Japanese romance novels in English under the name Onoto Watanna.
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Finding Edith Eaton Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 29, Number 2, 2012 pages 263-269 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2012.0017 Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Since her critical recovery in the early 1980s, Edith Maude Eaton has been celebrated as the first Asian North American writer and as an early, authentic…
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The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker (review) Studies in American Indian Literatures Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2012 pages 138-141 DOI: 10.1353/ail.2012.0035 Margaret M. Bruchac By reconstructing the life history of Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (1797–1866), historian and librarian Judith Ranta has done some fine detective work that illuminates an otherwise…
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Rosa Mahier’s Freedom: Identity and the Maintenance of Liberty in Antebellum Louisiana 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 14:50 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom I (Roosevelt New Orleans) Paper in AHA Session 220: Manipulating Freedom: Liberty, Enslavement, and the Quest for Power in the Southwestern…
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Donas, Signares, and Free Women of Color: African and Eurafrican Women of the Atlantic World in an Age of Racial Slavery 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 153 Saturday, 2013-01-05: 09:00-11:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Hilary Jones, University of…
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Life Stories, Local Places, and the Networks of Free Women of Color in Early North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 72 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 7 (New Orleans Marriott) Chair: Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas, Austin Papers:…
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Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (2010) 18 pages Konomi Ara Tokyo University of Foreign Studies This excerpt is from her newly-published biography of Josephine Baker, “A Fighting Diva.” It tells the intriguing story of Baker’s travels to Japan, her close friendship with the Japanese…
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Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (review) [McKibbin] University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 3, Summer 2012 pages 704-705 DOI: 10.1353/utq.2012.0140 Molly Littlewood McKibbin Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out by Adebe De Rango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, eds.(Inanna Publications, 2010) DeRango-Adem and Thompson’s new collection of the artistic, autobiographical, and scholarly work of…