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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Passing the Line Karl Jacoby 2012-12-20 Karl Jacoby, Professor of History Columbia University, New York, New York Who was Guillermo Eliseo? Such was the question that any number of people asked themselves during the Gilded Age as this enigmatic figure flitted in and out of an astonishing array of the era’s most noteworthy events—scandalous trials,…
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Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence Heyday November 2010 24 pages Paperback, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-59714-145-1 Damany M. Fisher, Professor of History and Political Science Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California California’s Afro-Latino heritage Although it is not generally apparent from paintings and other depictions of early California, many members of the pioneering Anza expeditions…
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EIHS Lecture: “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Slave Law and the History of Women in Slavery” Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies University of Michigan 1014 Tisch Hall 435 South State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003 2015-02-05, 16:00-18:00 CST (Local Time) Jennifer L. Morgan, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, History New York University In 1662, legislators in…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era [Tejada Review] Washington Independent Review of Books 2015-01-15 Susan Tejada When a Crescent City toddler goes missing, the tensions of the post-Civil War South are exposed. Ross, Michael A., The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the…
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The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era Oxford University Press 2014-10-14 320 Pages 30 half-tones 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780199778805 Michael A. Ross, Associate Professor of History University of Maryland Offers a glimpse into the volatile racial world of Reconstruction era New Orleans Guides readers through…
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Black Germans and the Holocaust International Slavery Museum Liverpool, England, United Kingdom 2015-01-14 The International Slavery Museum will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on Tuesday 27 January with a special free guest lecture by Professor Eve Rosenhaft from the University of Liverpool, who will be talking about the experiences of the Black German community during…
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The Life and Death of Davis Knight after State vs. Knight (1948) Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2009-04-08 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Davis Knight, the great-grandson of the infamous “Free State of Jones” guerrilla, Newt Knight, became the centerpiece of his own drama some 25 years…
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The gains and losses of racial “code switching” KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco, California 2015-01-27 Hana Baba, News Reporter/Host On today’s episode of “Crosscurrents,” we are talking about identity. We have heard how people, whether intentionally or not, can “pass” as another race, just by the sound of their voice. Passing can also be a…