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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In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age; an age in which cultural, intellectual, and economic forms of colonial domination persist.
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‘all my Slaves, whether Negroes, Indians, Mustees, Or Molattoes.’: Towards a Thick Description of ‘Slave Religion’ The American Religious Experience 1999 Patrick Neal Minges The time was in the late 1760’s and the place was Charleston, S.C. A young musician was on his way to a performance with his french horn tucked under his arm.…
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When Anita Florence Hemmings applied to Vassar in 1893, there was nothing in her records to indicate that she would be any different from the 103 other girls who were entering the class of 1897. But by August 1897, the world as well as the college had discovered her secret: Anita Hemmings was Vassar’s first…
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Are You an Indian? Public Broadcasting Service Independent Lens Premiere Date: 2011-11-17 Duration: 00:05:25 Though their ethnicities are mixed, the Wampanoag take pride in their tribal heritage. In this companion piece to the documentary film We Still Live Here—Âs Nutayuneân, Wampanoag tribal members discuss how their multicultural heritage both complicates and enriches their identities as…
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True Londoners Are Extinct The New York Times 2012-03-01 Craig Taylor Photo by Mark Neville. Children come to the Somerford Grove Adventure Playground in Tottenham, shown here, after school or on weekends to learn life skills like cooking. “There’s a real sense of adulthood to what the children are doing there,” Neville said. Later this…
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Building Multiracial Fortunes: Black Identity, Masculinity, and Authenticity Through the Body of T. Thomas Fortune, 1883-1907 San Diego State University Fall 2011 69 pages Guy Mount A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in History This thesis examines the…
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The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South Harper Perennial an imprint HarperCollins 2001-09-30 432 pages 5 5/16 x 8 ISBN: 9780060505905; ISBN10: 0060505907 Edward Ball, Lecturer in English Yale University From National Book Award winner ccomes The Sweet Hell Inside, the story of the fascinating Harleston family…
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Inventing the Creole Citizen: Race, Sexuality and the Colonial Order in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Stony Brook University December 2008 335 pages Yvonne Eileen Fabella A Dissertation Presented The Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Inventing the Creole Citizen examines the battle over racial hierarchy…