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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Creole Is, Creole Ain’t: Diachronic and Synchronic Attitudes toward Creole Identity in Southern Louisiana Language in Society Volume 29, Number 2 (June, 2000) pages 237-258 Sylvie Dubois, Gabriel Muir Professor of French Studies Louisiana State University Megan Melançon, Associate Professor of English Georgia College Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups…
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Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers National Genealogical Society Quarterly (current source: Historic Pathways) Volume 70, Number 3 (September 1982) pages 163-189 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The pursuit of genealogical research by Afro-Americans is a fairly-recent innovation in the American social experience. From an academic standpoint, today’s generation of black family historians…
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Student reflection on the Luther Lecture Impetus Luther College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Fall 2011 Jenna Tickell Senator Lillian Eva Dyck was the 36th Annual Luther Lecturer. Senator Dyck presented her personal story in relation to the issues of racism and sexism in Canada. She began with power-point statistics and ended with…
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“Miss Eurafrica”: Men, Women’s Sexuality, and Métis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945-1960 Journal of the History of Sexuality Volume 20, Number 3, September 2011 pages 568-593 Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Assistant Professor of African History University of Chicago The 1960 issue of the magazine L’Eurafricain (The Eurafrican) featured a cover photo of a woman announced…
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Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 3, Number 3 (Winter, 1973) pages 509-541 Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Duke University In the comparative study of race relations, the evolution of group identity constitutes a central process. Although group boundaries tend…
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Intimacy and Inequality: Manumission and Miscegenation in Nineteenth-Century Bahia (1830-1888) University of Nottingham April 2010 428 pages Jane-Marie Collins Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Hispanic and Latin American Studies This thesis proposes a new paradigm for understanding the historical roots of the myth of racial democracy…
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Between Black and White: Attitudes Toward Southern Mulattoes, 1830-1861 The Journal of Southern History Volume 45, Number 2 (May, 1979) pages 185-200 Robert Brent Toplin, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Wilmington The documents of slavery—laws, narratives speeches, and political tracts—contain abundant references to “Negroes” and “mulattoes.” By the standards of antebellum America, the…
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Negro Genius—Reviewed work(s): The Journal of American Folklore Volume 18, Number 71 (October-December, 1905) pages 319-322 NEGRO GENIUS. As a dispatch from Washington, D. C., the “Evening Transcript” (Boston, Mass.) of February 18, 1905, published the following concerning the investigations of Mr. Daniel Murray: – “Daniel Murray, for many years an assistant in the Library…