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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The New Creole Movement Jambalaya Magazine & Clothing 2015-01-08 Julia Dumas There is a movement brewing. It is a movement with a mission to reclaim Louisiana Creole culture. Many Louisianians have been scarred by a painful past full of racism and colorism. Darker people were banned from claiming Creole heritage, if unable to pass the…
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Veterans to Remember: Parker David Robbins We’re History 2014-11-10 Ben Railton, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of American Studies Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, Massachusetts Thanks principally to the critical and popular success of the film Glory (1989), our collective memory of the Civil War includes African American soldiers (known in their era as United…
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ (Exclusive)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ (Exclusive) The Wrap: Covering Hollywood 2014-01-06 Jeff Sneider, Film Reporter Scott Stuber and Jon Kilik are producing the Civil War tale for Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment Hot off a pair of acclaimed performances in “Beyond the Lights” and “Belle,” Gugu Mbatha-Raw…
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‘A Tale of Two Plantations,’ by Richard S. Dunn Sunday Rook Review The New York Times 2015-01-02 Greg Grandin, Professor of History New York University Dunn, Richard S., A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014). For enslaved peoples in the New World, it was…
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Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book “Sugar and Slaves,” Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean.
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This study is an examination of the American mestizos who lived in the Philippines from 1900 to 1955. No scholarly studies exist that analyze and historicize this group, but this is understandable, as the population of the American mestizos compared to the overall Filipino population is miniscule, never exceeding 20,000 individuals at any one time.
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The Birth of A Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War PublicAffairs 2014-11-04 368 pages 6.300 x 9.500 Hardcover ISBN: 9781586489878 eBook ISBN: 9781586489885 Dick Lehr, Professor of Journalism Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation…
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Racial Passing and the Raj American Historical Association 129th Annual Meeting New York, New York 2015-01-02 through 2015-01-05 Saturday, 2015-01-03, 15:10 EST (Local Time) Park Suite 3 (Sheraton New York) Uther Charlton-Stevens Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia Racial passing is a subject that has attracted much attention in the historiography of the Americas, as well…
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Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites NY1 News New York, New York 2014-12-29 Jeanine Ramirez, Brooklyn Reporter A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Deborah Schwartz clicks on the latest resource at the Brooklyn Historical Society, an oral history project about…