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: Native Americans/First Nation
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The Optics of Interracial Sexuality in Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings and Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven College Literature Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 119-148 DOI: 10.1353/lit.2014.0004 Jolie A. Sheffer, Associate Professor, English and American Culture Studies Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio This essay focuses on the racial…
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New Yale award to honor high school juniors for community engagement Yale News New Haven, Connecticut 2016-06-15 This photograph of Ebenezer Bassett is part of the collection in the Yale Library’s Department of Manuscripts and Archives. Select high school juniors across the nation will be honored for their public service through the Yale Bassett Award…
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Great Lakes Creoles A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860 by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (review) Ohio Valley History Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2016 pages 81-83 Margo Lambert, Assistant Professor of History Blue Ash College, University of Cinicinnati Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands,…
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Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 Cambridge University Press September 2014 326 pages 25 b/w illus. 6 maps 7 tables 236 x 157 x 22 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781107052864 Paperback ISBN: 9781107674745 eBook ISBN: 9781139990660 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark A case…
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Does Race Matter in Latin America? Foreign Affairs Volume 94, Number 2 (March/April 2015) Deborah J. Yashar, Professor of Politics and International Affairs Princeton University In 1992, the Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the daughter of poor Guatemalan peasants, for her work promoting indigenous rights. Her prize, momentous in its…
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Social-practice art challenges the status quo The Winnipeg Free Press 2016-05-30 Alison Gillmor, Writer – Arts and Life From KC Adams’ Perception series, 2014-15. Adams’ portraits blend personal, political Even if you don’t regularly visit art galleries, you probably saw some of KC Adams’ work in the weeks following the notorious Maclean’s magazine article that…
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Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…
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The Story in My DNA The Huffington Post 2016-05-24 Hope Ferguson Like many African Americans, I grew up not knowing where I came from. There was no “old country” for us. Obviously, I knew that most slaves were brought from Central and West Africa. I heard family stories about being part Native American – that…
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In Due Season Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2016 375 pages ISBN13: 978-1-77112-071-5 Christine van der Mark (1917–1970) Afterword by: Carole Gerson, Professor of English Department Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Janice Dowson, Lecturer in English literature and Academic Writing Simon Fraser University and University of the Fraser Valley First published in 1947, In…
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Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People by Michel Hogue (review) Labour / Le Travail Issue 77, Spring 2016 pages 297-299 DOI: 10.1353/llt.2016.0039 Sterling Evans, Louise Welsh Chair in Southern Plains and Borderlands History University of Oklahoma Michel Hogue, Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a…