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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(19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States The Colloge of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2011 Shannon King, Assistant Professor of History During the last presidential election, Rush Limbaugh, the controversial and conservative Republican radio personality, dubbed Barack H. Obama, our 44th President of the United States, as a “Half-frican.” Limbaugh, in…
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The Black Peril and Miscegenation: The Regulation of Inter-racial Sexual Relations in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1933 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada September 1991 140 Pages Katherine Gombay A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of M.A. For over forty years, at the turn…
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The histories of most New England states view blacks as a strange, foreign people enslaved in southern states, whom New Englanders rescued first by forming colonization and abolitionist societies and later by fighting a Civil War to free them. The existence of a black population in New England as early as the seventeenth century has…
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The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People University Press of Florida 1996-09-14 352 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-1451-7 Kenneth W. Porter, Professor of History Emeritus University of Oregon Edited by: Alcione M. Amos, Librarian Thomas P. Senter, M.D. This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader,…
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Black Indian Slave Narratives John F. Blair, Publisher 2004 200 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-89587-298-2 Patrick Minges Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently, historians have determined that of the…
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(ANT/NAS 493): Mixed Blood: Looking at the Relationship Between Africans and Native Americans Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska Fall 2005 Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Professor of Anthropology In this course the relationship between Africans and Native Americans will be explored. “Africans and Native Americans worked as slaves and as free men together. Both groups played important…
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Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007 250 pages Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Submitted to the Program in Science, Technology and Society In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the…
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The blonde, blue-eyed black man who one goal—racial justice The News-Times Danbury, Connecticut 2010-02-24 Antoinette Bosco Barack Obama has already made history in our nation, becoming the first black candidate ever to be elected to the U.S. presidency. But, in truth, he is following a path that has long been set by black people before…