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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Mulatto: Less than Human Indian Country Today 2012-01-16 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Race is not simply about the physical description of human variation. Since its origin in Western science in the eighteenth century, race has been used both to classify and rank human beings according to inferior and superior types. Although race as a…
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Louis Riel and the dispersion of the American Métis Minnesota History Magazine Volume 49, Issue 5 (1985) Pages 179-190 Thomas Flanagan, Professor of Political Science University of Calgary, Alberta THE MÉTIS leader Louis Riel is perhaps best known to readers of Minnesota History in connection with the Red River insurrection of 1869-70. When Canada agreed…
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“African and Cherokee by Choice”: Race and Resistance under Legalized Segregation American Indian Quarterly Volume 22, Numbers 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1998) pages 203-229 Laura L. Lovett, Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Amherst Zora Neale Hurston once boasted that she was “the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s…
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The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis in North America University of Manitoba Press October 1985 306 pages 30 b&w illustrations, notes, index Paper ISBN: 9780887556173 Edited by Jacqueline Peterson, Professor Emerita of History Washington State University Jennifer S. H. Brown, Professor Emerita of History University of Winnipeg The New Peoples is the first major…
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“IndiVisible” Discusses African–Native American Lives Newsdsesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian Institution 2012-01-06 “IndiVisible: African–Native American Lives in the Americas,” a 20-panel display that outlines the seldom-viewed history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native American ancestry, will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the…
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Marriages between African and Native Americans produced many children Louisiana Weekly 2012-01-02 (Healthy Living News) —Native Americans with African ancestry produced more children than ‘full bloods’ in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, a new study demonstrates. Research by Michael Logan, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee shows that increased fertility occurred…
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American Indians with African Ancestry: Differential Fertility and the Complexities of Social Identity Human Ecology Volume 39, Number 6 (December 2011) page 727-742 DOI: 10.1007/s10745-011-9439-2 Michael H. Logan, Professor of Anthropology University of Tennessee, Knoxville Interethnic marriage represents a major trend in the demographic history of American Indians. While the majority of these unions involved Indian…
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Perspective on Mixed-Blood Natives: The Silence of Indian Country Native News Network Native Condition: Analysis and Opinion 2011-09-22 Mike Raccoon Eyes Eastern Band of the Cherokee Quallah, North Carolina SAN FRANCISCO—Cherokee culture was steeped deeply into the great Meso-American pyramid temple cities as early as 800 AD. When the Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans and Aztecs were…
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Escaping to Destinations South: The Underground Railroad, Cultural Identity, and Freedom Along the Southern Borderlands National Park Service Network to Freedom 2012-06-20 through 2012-06-24 St. Augustine, Florida The Network to Freedom has joined with local partners to present an annual UGRR [Underground Railroad] conference beginning in 2007. These conferences bring together a mix of grass…