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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Black No More: Skin Bleaching and the Emergence of New Negro Womanhood Beauty Culture The Journal of Pan African Studies Voume 4, Number 4 (June 2011) pages 97-116 Treva B. Lindsey, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This article examines the usage of skin bleaching products and processes among some…
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The ambivalence of authority and secret lives of tears: transracial child placements and the historical development of South African Law Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 18, Issue 2, (June 1992) pages 372-404 DOI: 10.1080/03057079208708319 Frederick Noel Zaal, Professor of Law University of Kwazulu-Natal The negative attitudes towards racially mixed familial groups which underlay many…
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Georgia Historical Society Announces Georgia History Book of the Year [Writing The South Through The Self] Georgia Historical Society 2012-05-07 Brandy Mai, Director of Communications SAVANNAH, Ga., May 7, 2012 – The Georgia Historical Society has named Writing The South Through The Self by John C. Inscoe as the recipient of its 2012 Malcolm Bell…
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Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography University of Georgia Press 2011-05-01 246 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3968-9 John C. Inscoe, Albert B. Saye Professor and University Professor of History University of Georgia Using autobiography as an invaluable means for understanding southern history Drawing…
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Nineteenth-Century New Orleans and a Carnival of Women University of Florida 2006 72 pages Ragan Wicker A Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts The Carnival in New Orleans is historically the largest and longest annual public ritual…
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Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832 American Historical Review Volume 111, Number 2, 2006 pages 336-361, 44 paragraphs Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio During the Age of Revolution, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with…
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African-Scottish families A North East Story: Scotland, Africa and Slavery in the Caribbean 2008 This exhibition has been organised by an Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Bicentenary Committee to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Britain’s outlawing of the African slave trade in 1807. It follows on from a service of commemoration and a series of public lectures…