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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Blackness in Argentina: Jazz, Tango and Race Before Perón* Past and Present Volume 216, Issue 1 (August 2012) pages 215-245 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gts008 Matthew B. Karush, Associate Professor of History George Mason University On the question of race and nation, the dominant Latin American paradigm has never applied to Argentina. In Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere, twentieth-century…
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Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, “Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians” examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.
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Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier University of Nebraska Press 2005 202 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-2016-4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-6841-8 Andrew K. Frank, Allen Morris Associate Professor of History Florida Atlantic University Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in…
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‘Yo, Jose Dupard, Pardo Libre Natural Y Vecino De Esta Ciudad’: Masculinity, Race and Respectability in Spanish New Orleans/Jose Dupard, A Free Man of Color in Spanish New Orleans Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration Issue 5 (December 2011) 31 pages Megan Kareithi, ABD History Tulane University, Louisiana This paper explores the methods free men of…
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William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader University of Nebraska Press 2007 212 pages 9 photographs, 2 maps, figure, index, 2 appendixes Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4327-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2498-8 Theresa M. Schenck, Associate Professor of Life Sciences Communications and American Indian Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison This is the first full-length…
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Miscegenation, a story of racial intimacy! African American Registry 2012-07-20 On this date, the African American Registry discusses miscegantion. Reference: The Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage Susan Altman Shortly before Christmas in 1863 a 72-page pamphlet appeared for sale on newsstands in New York City. It was titled “Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the…
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The Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racisms Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Volume 7, Number 2 (2010) pages 205-216 DOI: 10.1007/s11673-010-9224-8 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University In this paper I investigate a largely untold chapter in the history of…
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HIST 1133-Mongrel America: Miscegenation, Passing, and the Myth of Racial Purity Cornell University Fall 2012 Racial divisions have served as potent tools for consolidating power, upholding unjust practices, and shaping the American historical imagination. Whether in the form of slavery, segregation, extralegal violence, or the one-drop rule, the insistence on preserving racial distinctions reflects a…