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: Europe
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Grammer’s self-run adoption agency made it possible for unwanted mixed-race children in Germany to find homes after World War II.
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Out of the approximately 95,000 U.S. Occupation babies born in Germany shortly after WWII, there were approximately 5,000 of us, Post WWII Afro-German children or so-called Negro mulatto babies, better known in the United States as Germany’s “Brown Babies.” In 1952, the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) deemed that we formed a special group,…
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Participants Needed for Oral History Research/Dissertation Project: Multiracial Americans in the 1960s and 70s Marlena Boswell, Ph.D. Candidate Department of History Indiana University, Bloomington 2019-02-01 I am a Ph.D. candidate researching the racial politics of multiracial individuals in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. While the scholarly literature clearly establishes how society has…
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This book explores the Spanish elite’s fixation on social and racial ‘passing’ and ‘passers’, as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards’ anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and…
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Hugo Bettauer, an author virtually unknown to the U.S., will see new appreciation with the recent translation of his novel “The Blue Stain: A Novel of a Racial Outcast.” Originally titled “Das blaue Mal: Der Roman eines Ausgestoßenen” and published in 1922, Peter Höyng and Chauncey J. Mellor’s new and first translation of this book…
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Austrian author Hugo Bettauer’s novel might have been lost to the ages had Peter Höyng, an associate professor of German studies in Emory College, not stumbled across it in the Austrian National Library while doing scholarly research on the author in 2002.
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A European novel of racial mixing and “passing” in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today.