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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Josephine Baker’s Rainbow Tribe Slate 2014-04-18 Rebecca Onion To prove that racial harmony was possible, the dancer adopted 12 children from around the globe—and charged admission to watch them coexist. Beginning in 1953, almost 30 years after her first successful performances on the Paris stage, the singer and dancer Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from…
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Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review Number 10, March 2014 26 pages Mark Caprio Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan Medical researcher Kubo Takeshi’s contributions to professional publications, such as Chōsen igakkai zasshi (The Korean medical journal), and more popular magazines, such as…
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Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country University of Oklahoma Press 1996 292 pages 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780806128139 Jennifer S.H. Brown, Professor of History University of Winnipeg For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert’s Land, the vast territory charted to…
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Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History University of Oklahoma Press 2012 520 pages Illustrations: 12 B&W Illus., 8 Maps, 16 Tables 6.125 x 9.25 in Paperback ISBN: 9780806144870 Edited by: Nicole St-Onge, Professor of History University of Ottawa Carolyn Podruchny, Associate Professor of History York University, Toronto Brenda Macdougall, Associate Professor of…
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Book Release of Prof. Lundy Braun’s Breathing Race into the Machine Brown University Providence, Rhode Island Program in Science and Technology Studies 2014-03-26 This February, Royce Family Professor in Teaching Excellence, professor of medical science and Africana studies, and a member of the Science and Technology Studies Program, Lundy Braun released her new book Breathing…
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5 Nations That Imported Europeans to Whiten The Population Atlanta Black Star 2014-03-10 Andre Moore After the trans-Atlantic slave trade was officially abolished toward the end of the 19th century, many whites felt threatened and feared free Blacks would become a menacing element in society. The elites spent a great dealing of time mulling over…
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Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering The American Historical Review Volume 115, Issue 5 (December 2010) pages 1364-1394 DOI: 10.1086/ahr.115.5.1364 William Max Nelson, Assistant Professor of History University of Toronto A minor nobleman from Alsace, traveling in French colonial Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) on the eve of the French and Haitian revolutions, expressed surprise that…
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Intermarried-Whites in the Cherokee Nation Between the Years 1865 and 1887 Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, Number 3 (September, 1928) pages 299-326 A. H. Murchison Muskogee, Oklahoma The Cherokee Indians in all their various treaties with the United States, numbering about twenty, obtained provisions whereby the United States was to exclude intruding white persons from their…
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Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of “Race” in Twentieth-Century America The Journal of American History Volume 83, Number 1 (June, 1996) pages 44-69 Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010), Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History University of Oregon On March 21, 1921, Joe Kirby took his wife, Mayellen, to court. The Kirbys had been married for…
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The Mestizo Concept: A Product of European Imperialism Onkwehón:we Rising: An Indigenouse Perspectic on Third Worldism & Revolution 2013-08-29 Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies University of California, Davis What is the concept of Mestizaje? What are its origins? What role does it have to play in the liberation, or rather the…