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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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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 histories of most New England states view blacks as a strange, foreign people enslaved in southern states, whom New Englanders rescued first by forming colonization and abolitionist societies and later by fighting a Civil War to free them. The existence of a black population in New England as early as the seventeenth century has…
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The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People University Press of Florida 1996-09-14 352 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-1451-7 Kenneth W. Porter, Professor of History Emeritus University of Oregon Edited by: Alcione M. Amos, Librarian Thomas P. Senter, M.D. This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader,…
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Black Indian Slave Narratives John F. Blair, Publisher 2004 200 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-89587-298-2 Patrick Minges Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently, historians have determined that of the…
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(ANT/NAS 493): Mixed Blood: Looking at the Relationship Between Africans and Native Americans Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska Fall 2005 Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Professor of Anthropology In this course the relationship between Africans and Native Americans will be explored. “Africans and Native Americans worked as slaves and as free men together. Both groups played important…
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When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature University of Illinois Press 2003 328 pages 6 x 9 in. Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02819-9 Edited by: Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African-Native American descent An exploration of the literature, history,…
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Missed Opportunities and the Problem of Mohawk Chief John Norton’s Cherokee Ancestry Ethnohistory Volume 59, Number 2 (Spring 2012) pages 261-291 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1536885 Carl Benn, Professor of History Ryerson University John Norton (1770–1831?) was one of the most important Iroquois leaders in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the author of a thousand-page…
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Indians and Diversity Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-05-03 Steve Russell, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Indiana University This term, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about affirmative action in university admissions, where my alma mater is on the side of diversity for a change. Most observers agree diversity is likely to…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Birther Moment The New York Times 2012-05-04 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University If you are 1/32 Cherokee and your grandfather has high cheekbones, does that make you Native American? It depends. Last Friday, Republicans in Massachusetts questioned the racial ancestry of Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senate candidate. Her opponent,…
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Amy Locklear Hertel to Head American Indian Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Indian Country Today 2012-04-29 Tanya Lee Amy Locklear Hertel, newly-selected director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was admonished by her grandmother to pursue her education. “Grandmother told me to get…