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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Science in support of racial mixture: Charles-Augustin Vandermonde’s Enlightenment program for improving the health and beauty of the human species Endeavor Available online 2013-12-25 (Corrected Proof) DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2013.11.001 Clara Pinto-Correia Instituto de Investigação Científica Bento da Rocha Cabral, Lisboa, Portugal Centro de Estudos de História e Filosofia das Ciências, Évora, Portugal João Lourenço Monteiro Departamento…
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Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge West Virginia University Press December 2013 160 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-1-935978-24-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935978-23-7 ePub ISBN: 978-1-935978-25-1 PDF ISBN: 978-1-938228-64-3 Original Text by Frances Harriet Whipple (1805-1878) with Elleanor Eldridge (1794-1862) Edited by: Joycelyn K. Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature and Professor of English University of Texas,…
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‘A Dreadful Deceit’ argues against a ‘racial’ past The Los Angeles Times 2013-12-20 Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles Jacqueline Jones in ‘A Dreadful Deceit’ aims to debunk the ‘myth of race’ and the ‘American creation story’ but for the most part is unconvincing in her argument. Jacqueline Jones, A…
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Roots Entwined by Audrey Dewjee Tangled Roots: Literature and events to celebrate mixed-race people in Yorkshire 2013 Audrey Dewjee Yorkshire-born Audrey Dewjee has been married for over 40 years to a Zanzibari of Indian ancestry. She has been researching British Black and Asian History since the mid-1970s, and is currently a member of Leeds Diasporian…
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Thyra Johnston, 91, Symbol Of Racial Distinctions, Dies The New York Times 1995-11-29 Robert McG. Thomas, Jr. (1939-2000) Thyra Johnston, a blue-eyed fair-skinned New Hampshire homemaker who became a symbol of the silliness of racial distinctions when she and her husband announced that they were black, died on Nov. 22 at her home in Honolulu.…
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Stanford historian re-examines practice of racial ‘passing’ Stanford News The Humanities at Stanford 2013-12-18 Nate Sloan, Doctoral Candidate in Musicology Stanford University In the margins of historical accounts and the dusty corners of family archives, Stanford history Professor Allyson Hobbs uncovers stories long kept hidden: those of African Americans who passed as white, from the…
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Before the Windrush: Race Relations in 20th-Century Liverpool Liverpool University Press March 2014 288 pages 16 black and white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 maps 234 x 156 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781846319679 Paperback ISBN: 9781781380000 John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History University of Liverpool Long before the arrival of the ‘Empire Windrush’ after the Second…
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“Dreadful Deceit”: Race is a myth Salon Sunday, 2013-12-15 Laura Miller, Staff Writer A historian argues that one of the defining elements of American culture is merely a “social fiction” Jacqueline Jones’ provocative new history, “Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” contains a startling sentence on its 265th…
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In “A Dreadful Deceit,” award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of Antonio, Owens, and four other African Americans to illustrate the strange history of “race” in America. In truth, Jones shows, race does not exist, and the very factors that we think of as determining it— a person’s heritage or skin color—are mere pretexts…