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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Black Indian With a Camera: The Work of Valena Broussard Dismukes Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 40-46 Sarita Cannon University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In this paper, I examine the liberatory photography of a living African-Choctaw-French American artist, Valena Broussard Dismukes. I am especially fascinated by the…
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The Politics of “Passing”: American Indians and Racial “Passing” University of Arizona 2004 80 pages Veronica R. Hirsch Introduction How is the racial “passing” behavioral concept applicable to American Indians, and what political forces created the socio-cultural circumstances that prompted this behavior? Beyond these immediate, sociologically-focused questions, what generational impacts does racial “passing” have upon…
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The Barber of Natchez National Park Service Natchez: National Historical Park, Mississippi 2012-07-19 Timothy Van Cleave, Park Ranger Natchez National Historical Park The Life of William Johnson Known as the “barber” of Natchez, William Johnson began his life as a slave. His freedom at age eleven followed that of his mother Amy and his sister…
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The Mixed-Blood Racial Strain of Carmel, Ohio and Magoffin County, Kentucky Ohio Journal of Science Volume 50, Number 6 (November 1950) pages 281-290 Edward T. Price, Professor Emeritus of Geography University of Oregon A number of population groups of dark-skinned peoples, recognized as socially distinct in rural localities of eastern United States, are commonly assumed…
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom University of California Press February 2005 329 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520241329 Paperback ISBN: 9780520250024 Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Frederick Jackson…
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Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America [Patricia Cleary Review] William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Volume 69, Number 3, July 2012 pages 665-667 DOI: 10.5309/willmaryquar.69.3.0665 Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America. By Gwenn A. Miller. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. 242 pages. Patricia Cleary, Professor of History California…
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Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America Cornell University Press 2010-08-05 248 pages 7 Illustrations 6.1 x 9.3 in ISBN-10: 0801446422; ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4642-9 Gwenn A. Miller, Assistant Professor of History College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts From the 1780s to the 1820s, Kodiak Island, the first capital of Imperial Russia’s only overseas…
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One of the American West’s bloodiest—and least-known—massacres is searingly re-created in this generation-spanning history of native-white intermarriage.
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kiyâm Athabasca University Press May 2012 144 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-926836-69-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-926836-70-6 eBook (EPub) ISBN: 978-1-926836-71-3 Naomi McIlwraith Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraith explores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin, the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin. Written to honour her father’s facility in nêhiyawêwin and her…
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The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle”
The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina’s “Winton Triangle” Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-03-20 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Here’s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator…