Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885

2020-09-10

In “North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885,” Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.”
On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American

2020-07-08

Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control.
Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes makes his voice heard. He should talk about the Tomahawk Chop

2020-07-08

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes recently joined with other NFL players in condemning racism and demanding that the league recognize the players’ right to protest injustice.
Maria Campbell on the pain and relief of re-releasing Halfbreed with uncut account of RCMP rape

2020-06-25

Métis author says the published version of her 1973 memoir ‘didn’t tell the complete story’
The Famous Fultz Quads

2020-03-22

The origin of America’s first surviving set of identical quadruplets.
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

2020-01-24

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.
Race-shifters: white people who identify as Indigenous NB Media Co-op

2019-12-29

The number of people across Canada who self-identify as Indigenous is growing rapidly. Some of that growth can be explained by the Indigenous children of the Sixties Scoop and residential school survivors re-discovering or accepting their Indigenous identities. However an entirely different group of Canadians has emerged.
Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity

2019-12-29

“Distorted Descent” examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity.
Establishing the Denominator: The Challenges of Measuring Multiracial, Hispanic, and Native American Populations

2019-12-01

I argue that for analytic purposes, racial/ethnic self-identification should continue to be treated as a statistical numerator, but that the challenge is for researchers to establish the correct denominator—the population that could identify as members of the group based on their ancestry.
Halfbreed

2019-11-10

A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic.

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