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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Reconstructing Molly Welsh: Race, Memory and the Story of Benjamin Banneker’s Grandmother University of Massachusetts, Amherst September 2008 194 pages Sandra W. Perot Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department of History Molly Welsh, oral tradition captured…
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Eurasians: Celebrating Survival Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007) DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082988 pages 129-141 Christine Choo University of Western Australia The search for my Asian ancestors and my discoveries in archives, the crumbling pages, the eroding ink, the disappearance of the word, are a metaphor for the simultaneous emergence of the will to…
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Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home The Guardian 2012-08-25 Afua Hirsch, West Africa Correspondent As a child in London, Afua Hirsch was embarrassed by her African roots. Then, in February, she became a ‘returnee’, choosing to live in her parents’ birthplace, Ghana. Her story is echoed across the continent:…
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Reconstructing Race The Western Historical Quarterly Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring, 2003) pages 6-26 Elliott West, Distinguished Professor of History University of Arkansas, Fayetteville During what might be called the Greater Reconstruction, 1846–1877, territorial acquisitions as well as southern slavery forced a new racial dialogue between West and South, unsettled racial relations and presumptions, and…
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Law and the Boundaries of Place and Race in Interracial Marriage: Interstate Comity, Racial Identity, and Miscegenation Laws in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, 1860s-1960s Akron Law Review Volume 32, Number 3 (1999) pages 557-575 Peter Wallenstein, Professor of History Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In North Carolina in 1869, Wesley Hairston, a…
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Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 University of Pittsburgh Press August 2007 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 9780822959656 Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Myths of Harmony examines a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most…
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John A. Macdonald wanted an ‘Aryan’ Canada The Ottawa Citizen 2012-08 Tim Stanley, Professor of History University of Ottawa In 1885, John A. Macdonald told the House of Commons that, if the Chinese were not excluded from Canada, “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed …” This was the precise…