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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Test performance of full and mixed-blood North Dakota Indians Journal of Comparative Psychology Volume 14, Number 1 (August 1932) pages 123-145 DOI: 10.1037/h0069966 C. W. Telford 225 Indian pupils scattered through the kindergarten to the sixth grade, inclusive, were given the Goodenough intelligence test. The average IQ of the Indian children was 88, as compared with…
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Tracing Trails of Blood on Ice: Commemorating “The Great Escape” in 1861-62 of Indians and Blacks into Kansas Negro History Bulletin Jaunary-December 2001 Willard B. Johnson My heart raced and emotions surged before I consciously grasped the meaning of what I was reading in that footnote. Reading all the footnotes had become routine for me,…
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“Pure and Noble Indians, Untainted by Inferior Idolatrous Races”: Native Elites and the Discourse of Blood Purity in Late Colonial Mexico Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 91, Number 4 (2011) pages 633-663 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1416657 Peter B. Villella, Assistant Professor of History University of North Carolina, Greensboro As sixteenth-century Spaniards constructed their global empire, they carried…
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Documentary Genocide: Families Surnames on Racial Hit List Richmond Times-Dispatch 2000-03-05 Peter Hardin, Former Washington Correspondent Long before the Indian woman gave birth to a baby boy, Virginia branded him with a race other than his own. The young Monacan Indian mother delivered her son at Lynchburg General Hospital in 1971. Proud of…
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Founding Families: Power and Authority of Mixed French and Native Lineages In Eighteenth Century Detroit Yale University May 2011 365 pages Publication Number: AAT 3467517 ISBN: 9781124807232 Karen L. Marrero A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosphy This dissertation highlights…
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Bill John Baker named official winner in Cherokee chief election Tusla World 2011-10-13 Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, World Correspondent TAHLEQUAH – Bill John Baker is now officially principal chief-elect of the Cherokee Nation. About 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, the Cherokee Nation Election Commission certified the results from the tribe’s special election. The certified results show Baker defeating former…
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Red and White: Miss E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake and the Other Woman Women’s Writing Volume 8, Issue 3 (2001) pages 359-374 DOI: 10.1080/09699080100200140 Anne Collett, Associate Professor of English Literature University of Wollongong, Australia This essay examines the dramatised conflictual relationship between “Red” and “White” selves in the performed and literary body of “half-blood” poet,…
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Brown Bag: Mixed-race tension in early America The Daily Campus: The Independent Voice of Southern Methodist University Since 1915 Dallas, Texas 2011-09-21 Logan May The struggle of mixed race families in Southwest America was a daunting issue in the early 19th century. As part of the Brown Bag Lecture Series of the Southwest, SMU Director…
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Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century School for Advanced Research Press 2011 280 pages 1 map, 3 tables, 6 appendices, notes, references, index 7 x 10 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin In Becoming Indian, author Circe Sturm examines Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon…