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 Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Random House 2012-09-18 432 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7 Tom Reiss Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo—a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count…
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“‘Tubbee’ and His Nieces: A Colloquy on White Men, Choctaw Women, Intermarriage and ‘Indianness’ in the Choctaw Intelligencer, 1851” Southeastern Oklahoma State University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 21-30 Richard Mize The Choctaw Intelligencer’s editorial commentary varied greatly when it came to Choctaw–Chickasaw relations with the United States in…
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Re-Visioning Wildfire: Historical Interpretations of the Life and Art of Edmonia Lewis Southeastern Oklahoma University Native American Symposium 2005-Proceedings of the Sixth Native American Symposium pages 31-39 Julieanna Frost Concordia University As a feminist historian, one of my major goals is to reclaim the histories of women and to broadcast the diversity of the female…
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Race: The History of an Idea in the West Johns Hopkins University Press May 1996 464 pages Paperback (on-demand) ISBN: 9780801852237 Ivan Hannaford In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it,…
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W.Va. historian to talk on pre-Civil War slave economy The Charleston Gazette Charleston, West Virginia 2013-04-09 Douglas Imbrogno CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Ending slavery was a moral question that haunted early American history, but it was one inextricably tangled up in economics. While West Virginia was a state born in 1863 out of the tumult over slavery and…
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Virgil Westdale: Farm Boy, Pilot, Soldier, Inventor, Author, and Gentleman Japanese American National Museum Stories 2010-09-09 Esther Newman Virgil Westdale’s exceptional life story might never have been published had he not attended a Halloween dance. Unsure of what to wear, the World War II veteran donned his Army uniform of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team,…
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Blue Skies and Thunder: Farm Boy, Pilot, Inventor, TSA Officer, and WW II Soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team iUniverse 2009-12-21 296 pages E-Book ISBN: 978-1-44018-258-7 Virgil W. Westdale with Stephanie A. Gerdes In 1942, Virgil Westdale was a successful young flight instructor when the government ousted him from the Air Corps and demoted…
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A White Face With A Forgotten African Family All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-11-24 Jacki Lyden, Host Growing up blond-haired and blue-eyed in Southern California, Joe Mozingo always thought his family name was Italian. But as an adult, Mozingo became skeptical of that theory when friends and co-workers began to ask him about his…