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 Case Was Very Black against” Her: Pauline Hopkins and the Politics of Racial Ambiguity at the “Colored American Magazine” American Periodicals Volume 16, Number 1 (2006) pages 52-73 Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Librarian for History, American Literature, and American Culture University of Michigan When Pauline Hopkins’s short story. “Talma Gordon,” appeared in the October 1900…
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The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia Palgrave Macmillan 2012-01-03 304 pges 13.800 x 8.250 inches, includes 10 pgs illus ISBN: 978-0-230-34018-3, ISBN10: 0-230-34018-0 Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton, Adjunct Research Fellow Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of…
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Anglo-Indian legacy slowly disappears in remote forest The Brunei Times 2011-12-20 Ammu Kannampilly Mccluskieganj, India As India inched towards independence, hundreds of mixed-race Anglo-Indians feared for their future and retreated to a self-styled homeland in a thickly forested part of the country. Ernest McCluskie, an Indian of Scottish descent established McCluskieganj in what is now…
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Public Mothers: Native American and Métis Women as Creole Mediators in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest Journal of Women’s History Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2003 Special Issue: Revising the Experiences of Colonized Women: Beyond Binaries Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark During the early nineteenth century, the largely Francophone, mixed ancestry residents…
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Assimilation in Eighteenth-Century Senegal John D. Hargreaves, Burnett-Fletcher Professor Emeritus of History University of Aberdeen, Scotland The Journal of African History Volume 6, Number 2 (1965) pages 177-184 Although historians are becoming more aware of the importance of communities of West Africans with experience of European education, institutions and culture, they have so far paid…
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Asking readers to imagine a history of Mexico narrated through the experiences of Africans and their descendants, this book offers a radical reconfiguration of Latin American history. Using ecclesiastical and inquisitorial records, Herman L. Bennett frames the history of Mexico around the private lives and liberty that Catholicism engendered among enslaved Africans and free blacks,…
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The Case of Loving v. Bigotry The New York Times 2012-01-01 Julie Bosman Photography by: Grey Villet In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom by the sheriff of Caroline County, Va. Their crime: being married to each other. The Lovings—Mildred, who was of African-American and Native American…
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My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Basic Civitas Books 2007-01-02 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780465015740; ISBN-10: 0465015743 Thulani Davis Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the “white folk” in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to…