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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Parading Respectability: An Ethnography of the Christmas Bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2012 238 pages Sylvia R. Bruinders The Christmas Bands march through Adderley Street late at night during the “festive season” in Cape Town, 2001. Picture by Henry Trotter. The author releases it to the public…
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The author presents a comparative analysis of the histories of racial/color categorization in American and Brazilian censuses and shows that racial (and color) categories have appeared in these censuses because of shifting ideas about race and the enduring power of these ideas as organizers of political, economic, and social life in both countries.
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The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the ‘Community of Race’ and the Category of Indigène in New Caledonia, 1887–1946 The Journal of Pacific History Published online: 2012-06-29 pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2012.688183 Adrian Muckle, Lecturer in History Victoria University of Wellington From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indigénat provided French administrators in…
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The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the ‘Domiciled Community’ in British India 1858-1930 Oxford University Press January 2012 288 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199697700; ISBN10: 0199697701 Satoshi Mizutani From 1858 to 1930 the concept of whiteness in British India was complex and contradictory. Under the Raj, the spread of racial ideologies was pervasive, but whiteness…
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For Daughters of the American Revolution, a New Chapter The New York Times 2012-07-03 Sarah Maslin Nir Olivia Cousins can trace her family in the United States to a soldier who joined the rebelling colonists when he was just 17. But when a friend suggested she join the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization…
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Freedom Road Spotlights St. Augustine History VisitFlorida.com 2012-06-29 Amy Wimmer Schwarb Derek Hankerson wanted to help educate people not only about Spanish Florida, but about the diverse groups who contributed to the country’s founding. A St. Augustine company is trying to reshape the American story – not to rewrite history, but to retell it. Derek…
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Malaga Island: A century of shame Maine Sunday Telegram 2012-05-20 Colin Woodard, Staff Writer A new exhibit at the Maine State Museum tells the story of the eviction of Malaga Island’s residents, one of the state’s most disgraceful official acts ever. AUGUSTA — A century ago this spring, Maine Gov. Frederick Plaisted oversaw the destruction…
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A Case of Identity: Ethnogenesis of the New Houma Indians Ethnohistory Volume 48, Number 3 (Summer 2001) pages 473-494 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-48-3-473 Dave D. Davis University of Southern Maine Throughout the twentieth century, anthropologists and historians have regarded the Houma Indians of southern Louisiana as the descendants of the Houma Indians encountered along the Mississippi River…