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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The Birth of the Mestizo in New Spain The Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 19, Number 2 (May, 1939) pages 161-184 C. E. Marshall No colonizing nation of modern times has had, perhaps, a more interesting and significant history than Spain in the new world. Protestant commercial England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries built…
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Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line Backintyme Publishing April 2010 258 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780939479320 Edited by Scott Withrow Borderlands of “Racial” Identity Some Americans pretend that a watertight line separates the “races.” But most know that millions of mixed-heritage families crossed from one “race” to another over the past four centuries. Every essay in…
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Professor Ira Berlin: Slavery U.S. History: Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium Meet the Historians 1999-04-12 Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor of History University of Maryland These renowned historians and experts chatted with students online. Read the transcripts. Ira Berlin is a leading historian of southern and African-American life. He is Professor of History at the…
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Historian Unmasks Quadroon Myth New Wave Tulane University News 2011-08-17 Carol J. Schlueter Historian Emily Clark has been here before, plowing through New Orleans archival documents from the early 1800s, handwritten in French. Her latest search has unveiled truths about a group of women that Clark says history has maligned: free women of color. “I…
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Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England University of Minnesota Press 2010 296 pages 25 b&w photos, 2 tables 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6578-5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-6577-8 Jean M. O’Brien, (White Earth Ojibwe) Professor of History University of Minnesota Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote…
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Colonial Peru, the Caste System, and the “Purity” of Blood South Americana: The History and Culture of the World’s Most Exotic Continent 2012-03-20 David Gaughran It was the Spaniards who gave the world the notion that an aristocrat’s blood is not red but blue. The Spanish nobility started taking shape around the ninth century in…
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Daniel Sharfstein wins 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Vanderbilt Law School News Vanderbilt University 2012-03-16 Daniel Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has won the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for his sensitive account of the fine line people of mixed race have tread in the United States since the nation’s beginning, The Invisible…