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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Although anti-miscegenation laws generally have been analyzed as racial legislation, they also can tell us a great deal about intimacy. These provisions have certainly been used to define and entrench racial difference, but they are also a means to set the boundaries of sexual decency and marital propriety. Here, I will use the comparative experience…
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Indian Voices Creates a Bureau of Black Indian Affairs Indian Voices July/August 2011 Rose Davis, Publisher Indian Voices At last a true Separate But Equal—For the Good of the People The Dawes Rolls (a census, used by the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs] to determine identity of Tribal members and citizens) came into existence in…
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Persistent Borderland: Freedom and Citizenship in Territorial Florida Texas A&M University August 2007 295 pages Philip Matthew Smith A Dissertation by Philip Matthew Smith Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in History Florida’s Spanish borderland was the result…
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Does Gates DNA Data Make Black Indians an Urban Legend? Or Does Eating Out of the Same Pot Still Matter? Indian Voices July/August 2011 page 7 Phil Wilkes Fixico I am Phil Wilkes Fixico a Seminole Maroon Descendant who was featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s book and exhibit entitled “IndiVisible” African-Native American Lives. My personal…
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Long Lance National Film Board of Canada 1986 Running Time: 00:55:00 Bernie Dichek, Director Was he a black man, a white man, or an Indian chief? This documentary looks at legendary and fascinating impostor Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant…
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Tribal Kulturkampf: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity Seton Hall Law Review Volume 35, Number 4 (2005) pages 1241-1260 Carla D. Pratt, Associate Professor of Law Pennsylvania State University I. INTRODUCTION “Law is embroiled in the politics of identity. It names parties, defines their speech and conduct, and assigns their rights…
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Robeson County Native Writes Book on Lumbee Indians The Pilot Southern Pines, North Carolina 2010-06-16 Kay Grismer “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” The Native Americans who have lived along the Lumber River in Robeson County for generations may have been given names…
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Notes on the state of Virginia: Africans, Indians and the paradox of racial integrity Union Institute and University June 2005 277 pages AAT 3196614 Publication Number: AAT 3196614 ISBN: 9780542425899 Arica L. Coleman, Assistant Professor of Black American Studies Unverisity of Delaware Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of…
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Constructing and Contesting Color Lines: Tidewater Native Peoples and Indianness in Jim Crow Virginia George Washington University 2009-01-31 392 pages Laura Janet Feller A Dissertation submitted to The Faculty of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy…
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The Cross-Heart People: Race and Inheritance in the Silent Western Journal of Popular Film and Television Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2003) pages 181-196 DOI: 10.1080/01956050309602855 Joanna Hearne, Assistant Professor of English University of Missouri The author examines the visualization of Indianness in the context of cross-racial romance and in relation to the emergence of…