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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Irrevocable Ties and Forgotten Ancestry: The Legacy of Colonial Intermarriage for Descendents of Mixed Ancestry University of British Columbia, Vancouver April 2008 56 pages Kim S. Dertien A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Anthropology) The identities of mixed Aboriginal…
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Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, “Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians” examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
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Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier University of Nebraska Press 2005 202 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2016-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-6841-8 Andrew K. Frank, Allen Morris Associate Professor of History Florida Atlantic University Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in…
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“A name creates life patterns,” Allison Adelle Hedge Coke writes, “which form and shape a life; my life, like my name, must have been formed many times over then handed to me to realize.” “Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer” is Hedge Coke’s narrative of that realization, the award-winning poet and writer’s searching account of her life…
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William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader University of Nebraska Press 2007 212 pages 9 photographs, 2 maps, figure, index, 2 appendixes Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4327-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2498-8 Theresa M. Schenck, Associate Professor of Life Sciences Communications and American Indian Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison This is the first full-length…
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A problem that consistently confronts racist law makers in the question of defining who is “Negro” and who is “white.”
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The author presents a comparative analysis of the histories of racial/color categorization in American and Brazilian censuses and shows that racial (and color) categories have appeared in these censuses because of shifting ideas about race and the enduring power of these ideas as organizers of political, economic, and social life in both countries.
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Freedom Road Spotlights St. Augustine History VisitFlorida.com 2012-06-29 Amy Wimmer Schwarb Derek Hankerson wanted to help educate people not only about Spanish Florida, but about the diverse groups who contributed to the country’s founding. A St. Augustine company is trying to reshape the American story – not to rewrite history, but to retell it. Derek…
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A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians Ethnohistory Volume 48, Number 3 (Summer 2001) pages 473-494 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-48-3-473 Dave D. Davis University of Southern Maine Throughout the twentieth century, anthropologists and historians have regarded the Houma Indians of southern Louisiana as the descendants of the Houma Indians encountered along the Mississippi River…