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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Indians and Mestizos: Identity and Urban Popular Culture in Andean Peru Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2000) pages 239 – 253 DOI: 10.1080/03057070050010093 Fiona Wilson The article begins with a discussion of the chronology of conquest and liberation in Peru and reflects on the changing meanings given to the racial…
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Slave Mothers and White Fathers: Defining Family and Status in Late Colonial Cuba Slavery & Abolition Volume 31, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 29-55 DOI: 10.1080/01440390903481647 Karen Y. Morrison, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies University of Massachusetts, Amherst This paper outlines the mechanisms used to position the offspring of slave women and white men at…
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Contentious Legacies: Mixed-Race in the Age of Colorblindess and Beyond University of Illinois, Urbana-Champiagn Asian American Cultural Center 2010-03-30 12:00 CDT (Local Time) Tessa Winklemann This presentation is about Mixed Race issues, the 2010 Census, and the history of the construction of race and the census in the United States. For more information, click here.
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Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1997 195 pages Kimberly Anne Hicks This dissertation examines the process of miscegenation in the work of four authors who occupy pivotal positions in American writing about race. It is concerned with a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts produced by William Wells Brown,…
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Acts of Intercourse: “Miscegenation” in three 19th Century American Novels American Studies in Scandinavia Volume 27 (1995) pages 126-141 Domhnall Mitchell, Professor of English Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Until this period of the evening, the duties of hospitality and the observances of religion had prevented familiar discourse. But the regular offices…
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“Assimilating the Primitive”: Parallel Dialogues on Racial Miscegenation in Revolutionary Mexico Peter Lang Publishing Group 2004 179 pages, 4 tables Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8204-6322-3 Kelley R. Swarthout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Colgate University, New York This book examines the Mexican nationalist rhetoric that promoted race mixing as a cultural ideal, placing it within its broader…