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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History 101.020: Betwixt and Between in the United States: Boundaries and the People who Defy Them University of California, Berkeley Spring 2013 MacKenzie Moore, Visiting Lecturer This 101 seminar is geared toward any student who wants to study the boundaries among and between people, nations, or states, broadly defined. It is also perfect for those…
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AAS 490: Special Topics in Black World Studies: Section 008: Race and “Black Indians” University of Michigan Winter 2013 Theme Semester Courses Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies This seven week mini course is a special winter 2013 offering for the LSA Theme Semester on Race. The…
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Hist7362: Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University College of London 2013 Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History This course examines race and ethnicity, and processes of racialised and ethnic exclusion, in Latin America in historical perspective. It invites us to consider the historical role played by race and ethnicity…
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Canada’s Métis win 142-year-old land ruling BBC News 2013-03-08 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the Métis indigenous group 142 years ago. In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was “not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction”. The…
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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation by Malinda Maynor Lowery (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 126, Number 499, Winter 2013 pages 95-96 DOI: 10.1353/jaf.2013.0006 David Steven Cohen This book from the University of North Carolina Press raises important questions about which groups are and are…
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Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity: Indian-Black Intermarriage in Southern New England, 1760-1880 The Journal of American History Volume 85, Number 2 (September, 1998) pages 466-501 Daniel R. Mandell, Professor of History Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri In the century following the American Revolution, Indians in southern New England struggled to survive as communities, families,…
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Native American Roots in Black America Run Deep Indian Voices 2013-02-04 David A. Love Do you have Indian in your family? That’s a common question asked in the black community. Many African- Americans lay claim to Native American ancestry, and yet very few blacks have taken the steps to research this part of the history,…
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This paper builds a Critical Race Theory approach to consider how mixed-race American Indian college students conform to, or resist, dominant black/non-black ideology. Current research on multiracials in the U.S. lacks the perspectives of mixed-race American Indians on the heightened disputes of “Indianness,” tribal enrollment, and tribal self-determination.
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Your Great-Great Grandmother Wasn’t a Cherokee Indian Country Today Media Network 2013-01-25 Jay Daniels Once, at a tribal consultation meeting, Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, asked me to join him for lunch. Upon learning that I was a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, he asked about my opinion of the…