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: History
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From Chains to Chiles: An Elite Afro-Indigenous Couple in Colonial Mexico, 1641–1688 Ethnohistory Volume 62, Number 2, April 2015 pages 361-384 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2854356 Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva, Assistant Professor of History University of Rochester This article explores the life of an elite Afro-indigenous couple in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles during the seventeenth…
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The Forgotten Supervillain of Antebellum Tennessee Narratively: Human Stories, Boldy Told. 2015-04-28 Betsy Phillips (Photo Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac-franklin-by-wb-cooper.jpg) In a brutal business defined by cruelty, Isaac Franklin was perhaps the worst slave trader in all of cotton country—and the richest man in the south. Yet today his heinous crimes are long forgotten. The people of Nashville…
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“A Chosen Exile” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs, has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians Stanford University Department of History Palo Alto, California 2015-04-20 “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life” by History Professor Allyson Hobbs has won two prizes from the Organization of American Historians: the Frederick Jackson…
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On Slave Ownership, Privilege and One Drop One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval 2015-04-21 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Writer, Performer and co-Producer For just a little over two years I have traveled across the United States performing the one-woman show I wrote and produce, One Drop of Love. One Drop…
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Visualizing Racial Mixture and Movement: Music, Notation, Illustration J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2015 pages 146-155 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2015.0009 Brigitte Fielder, Assistant Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison The archive of nineteenth-century visual culture abounds with illustrations of racial difference reflect anxieties about racial mixture and movement. Race extends beyond…
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Racial Reflections American Book Review Volume 36, Number 2, January/February 2015 page 13 DOI: 10.1353/abr.2015.0007 Ben Railton, Associate Professor of English Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, Massachusetts Hobbs, Allyson, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Even without a back-cover blurb from Isabel Wilkerson, it seems inevitable that…
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In Puerto Rico, a push to revive indigenous culture The Associated Press 2015-04-20 Anica Coto SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico (AP) — In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet potato as they learn about the indigenous people…
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See First Photos of Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones Time 2015-04-21 Sarah Begley, Culture Reporter Matthew McConaughey stars in The Free State of Jones (Murray Close) He’s basically your Civil War boyfriend For an actor, there’s no better awards bait than an appearance-transforming role in a biographical war movie. World, meet The…
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Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon Ohio University Press 2014 336 pages 6 × 9 in., 7 b&w photos, 4 maps Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8214-2120-8 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8214-2119-2 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-8214-4503-7 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of California, Davis Conjugal Rights is a history of the role of…
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Legacies of war The Washington Post 2015-04-17 Annie Gowen, Bureau chief — New Delhi Linda Davidson, Photography Forty years after the fall of Saigon, soldiers’ children are still left behind Vo Huu Nhan was in his vegetable boat in the floating markets of the Mekong Delta when his phone rang. The caller from the United…