Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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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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Three years prior to the ending of the slave trade, Jamaica’s richest and most influential merchant mused on the possible consequences of abolition. Writing to his friend George Hibbert in January of 1804, Simon Taylor offered a stark vision of the British imperial economy without slave importation, echoing scores of other pro-slavery writers who preached…
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Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), East Asian Seminar Room (110C) 2013-10-12, 10:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams,…
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How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly “Indian” customs come to be accepted—socially and legally—as Indians?
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Tom Christian, known as the Voice of Pitcairn for his half-century-long role in keeping his tiny South Pacific island, famed as the refuge of the Bounty mutineers, connected to the world, died at his home there on July 7. Mr. Christian, Pitcairn’s chief radio officer and a great-great-great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, the mutiny’s leader, was…
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Notorious in the Neighborhood with Joshua Rothman, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-08-22, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-08-23, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Joshua D. Rothman, Professor of History and African American Studies University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 Laws…
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Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South University of Nebraska Press 2013 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-7154-8 Melissa Schrift, Associate Professor of Anthropology East Tennessee State University Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains…
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Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America University Press of Kansas April 2012 224 pages 5-1⁄2 x 8-1⁄2 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1846-0 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1847-7 Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Associate Professor of History Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep…
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This book shows that without the cooperation of the “mixed-bloods,” or part-Indians, dispossession of Indian lands by the U.S. government in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been much more difficult to accomplish.
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Sex and Race, Volume I: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World J. A. Rogers (1880-1966) Helga Rogers 1941 (Ninth Edition, 1967) 302 pages ISBN-13: 978-0960229406; ISBN 10: 096022940X Table of Contents I. RACE TODAY II. WHICH IS THE OLDEST RACE? III. THE MIXING OF BLACK AND WHITE IN THE ANCIENT…