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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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But there was something different about this tribe, the Tlaxcala, and when the music ceased and the chatter resumed, the difference became clear: They spoke exclusively Spanish.
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Rights of passage – the coming of the ‘wild west’ Constructs of identity and their effects upon Indigenous people Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007), Indigenous Special Issue pages 39-45 Michael Red Shirt Semchison M.Ed.Studies; Gr.Cert.Ed.[HE] University of Queensland, Australia Introduction “We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful…
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The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth American Society of Ethnohistory Conference “Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: Colorful Identities, Creative Strategies American Society of Ethnohistory conference” Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005-11-18 through 2005-11-20 2005-11-19 Carol A. Morrow, Professor of Anthropology Southeast Missouri State University Over the years, I have had a number of African-American…
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The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2011) pages 31-57 E-ISSN: 1911-0251; Print ISSN: 0021-9495 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2011.0022 Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor of English University of Toronto This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance:…
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A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 University of Nebraska Press 2000 233 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8293-3 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great…
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Cultural Representation in Native America AltaMira Press August 2006 192 pages Cloth 0-7591-0984-2 / 978-0-7591-0984-1 Paper 0-7591-0985-0 / 978-0-7591-0985-8 Edited by: Andrew J. Jolivétte, Associate Professor of American Indian Studies San Francisco State University Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape…
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A Health Survey of the Seminole Indians Yale Journal Biology and Medicine Volume 6, Number 2 (December 1933) pages 155–177 H. Hamlin Among the numerous tribes of Indians living in Oklahoma the Seminoles offer some interesting phenomena for study which may contribute information on the subject of race mixture and its relationship to environment and…
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The Hidden History of Mestizo America The Journal of American History Volume 82, Number 3 (December, 1995) pages 941-964 5 illustrations Gary B. Nash, Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles This essay was delivered as the presidential address at the national meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Washington, March 31,…
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In this groundbreaking study, Thomas Ingersoll argues the Jacksonian American Indian removal policy appealed to popular racial prejudice against all Indians, including special suspicion of mixed bloods. Lawmakers also perceived a threat to white Americans’ transatlantic reputation posed by the potential for general racial mixture, or “amalgamation.”
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Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path Caxton Press 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-87004-450-8 Nancy M. Peterson Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their…