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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A Mestizaje of Epistemologies in American Indian Stories and Ceremony Nakum Volume 2.1 (2011) 49 paragraphs Margaret Cantú-Sánchez Department of English University of Texas, San Antonio A close examination of Native American literature reveals that some Native Americans find it difficult to retain ties to their cultural epistemologies once introduced to the assimilationist pedagogies of…
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Doubters and Dreamers University of Arizona Press 2011 96 pages 5.50 in x 8.50 in Paper ISBN: 978-0-8165-2927-8 Janice Gould Doubters and Dreamers opens with a question from a young girl faced with the spectacle of Indian effigies lynched and burned “in jest” before UC Berkeley’s annual Big Game against Stanford: “What’s a debacle, Mom?”…
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Northwest of Manhattan where the New York-New Jersey boundary crosses the tree-covered ridges and hollows ridges and hollows of the Ramapo Mountains there is a group of about 1,500 racially mixed people who have long been referred to by journalists and historians as the “Jackson Whites.”
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Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line Backintyme Publishing April 2010 258 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479320 Edited by Scott Withrow Borderlands of “Racial” Identity Some Americans pretend that a watertight line separates the “races.” But most know that millions of mixed-heritage families crossed from one “race” to another over the past four centuries. Every essay in…
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Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England University of Minnesota Press 2010 296 pages 25 b&w photos, 2 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6578-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6577-8 Jean M. O’Brien, (White Earth Ojibwe) Professor of History University of Minnesota Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote…
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For A Century, The First Underground Railroad Ran Slaves South To Florida (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2012-03-18 Bruce Smith, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. — While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century…
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Spotlight on Jon Veilie: A Man on a Thirteen Year Mission The Modern American Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) Article 8 pages 22-23 Lydia Edwards It all started one month after he passed the bar. Sylvia Davis, a black Seminole, came to Jon for help. She had been to many lawyers already. She told…
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Coloring: An Investigation of Racial Identity Politics within the Black Indian Community Georgia State University 2007 106 pages Charlene Jeanette Graham A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts In the College of Arts and Sciences Historical interconnections between Native Americans and many people of African descent in…
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Anthropology 324L/American Studies 321: The Black Indian Experience in the United States University of Texas, Austin Fall 2011 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin This course explores the entwined histories, cultures and identities of African American and Native American people in the United States. Long neglected in popular and scholarly…