Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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First Métis Families of Quebec, 1622-1748. Volume 1: Fifty-Six Families Genealogical Publishing Company 2012 226 pages 8½” x 11” Paperback ISBN: 9780806355610 Gail Morin The term Métis originally referred to the offspring produced from the intermarriage of early French fur traders with Canadian Native Americans. Later, there were also Anglo Métis (known as “Countryborn”)–children of…
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Black American Indians seek to honor their mixed ancestry Al Jazeera America 2014-07-22 Naureen Khan WASHINGTON — The soaring sound of “Wade in the Water,” a Negro spiritual once said to be used on the Underground Railroad, filled Plymouth Congressional United Church of Christ Saturday morning. But on this particular Saturday, church-goers offered their respects…
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Black Indians are constantly confronted with the fact that they do not fit any of society’s stereotypes for Native Americans. Those stereotypes are imposed by both whites and sadly, other Indians.
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Search through own heritage leads evangelist to story about enslaved mixed-race pastor The Advocate Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2014-06-16 Mark H. Hunter, Special to The Advocate If local school district officials knew then what Sammy Tippit knows now, he might not have been allowed to attend Istrouma High School. Tippit, 66, is a world-renowned evangelist who…
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Radmilla’s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation Cultural Anthropology Volume 29, Issu3 2 (May 2014) pages 385-410 DOI: 10.14506/ca29.2.11 Kristina Jacobsen-Bia, Assistant Professor of Music University of New Mexico Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona, September 1997. A young woman butchers a sheep as the crowd at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds…
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Exploring the Political Exploitation of Blood Quantum in the U.S. Indian Country Today Media Network 2013-05-17 Vincent Schilling, Executive Vice President Schilling Media, Inc. Arica L. Coleman is an assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. She is African American and Native American (Rappahannock), which may help explain why she has…
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“That the Blood Stay Pure” traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans.
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G.O.P. Hopeful Finds Tribal Tie Cuts Both Ways The New York Times 2014-05-03 Jonathan Martin, National Political Correspondent BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — T. W. Shannon will be Oklahoma’s first black senator if he wins the Republican nomination and is elected this November, but the quiet campaign stirring here about Mr. Shannon’s racial loyalties is not aimed…
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CNST 419 – The Metis People of Canada University of Calgary Fall 2013 An interdisciplinary study of the Metis people of Canada, with special emphasis on the social, economic, and political factors influencing their emergence and continued survival as a distinct indigenous group in Canada. (formerly Canadian Studies 401.04) For more information, click here.