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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Bengali Harlem: Author documents a lost history of immigration in America In America: You define America. What defines you? Cable News Network (CNN) 2013-02-15 Editor’s note: CNN’s Moni Basu, a Bengali immigrant, was born in Kolkata, India. Moni Basu (CNN) – In the next few weeks, Fatima Shaik, an African-American, Christian woman, will travel “home”…
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Spaniards, ‘pardos’, and the missing mestizos: identities and racial categories in the early Hispanic Caribbean New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Volume 71, Numbers 1&2 (1997) pages 5-19 Stuart B. Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History Yale University Traces the history of the mestizos, the descendants of Spanish-Indian contacts during the early…
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Opportunities for Academic Research Chowan Discovery Group 2013-02-25 Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director The Chowan Discovery Group is inviting academics to partner with us to study the Winton Triangle. The Triangle is a 260 year-old mixed race community of landowners in central Hertford County. Around 1960, its population was in the hundreds, and the land…
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The Origins and Authors of the Code Noir Louisiana Law Review Volume 56, Number 2 (Winter 1996) pages 363-407 Vernon Valentine Palmer, Thomas Pickles Professor of Law Tulane University, New Orleans I. Introduction The Code Noir marked France’s historic rendezvous with slavery in the Americas. It was one of the most important codes in the…
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The story of the Hay children in Dornoch, however, was not at all unique at the turn of the nineteenth century. Rather, the Hays were members of a regular migration of mixed-race West Indians who arrived in the home country during the period.
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In “Spectacular Wickedness,” Emily Epstein Landau examines the social history of this famed district within the cultural context of developing racial, sexual, and gender ideologies and practices.