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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Mixed-Race Identity in a Nineteenth-Century Family: The Schoolcrafts of Sault Ste. Marie, 1824-27 Michigan Historical Review Volume 25, Number 1 (Spring, 1999) pages 1-23 Jeremy Mumford, Visiting Assistant Professor of History Brown University In the autumn of 1824 the Schoolcraft family set out from Sault Ste. Marie, at the mouth of Lake Superior in northern…
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Anglo-Indian Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Western Ballroom Music in Lucknow The Drama Review Volume 48, Number 4 (Winter 2004) Pages 167-182 DOI: 10.1162/1054204042442053 Dr. Bradley Shope, Assistant Professor of Music Texas A&M Universtity, Corpus Christi From the 1920s to the 1940s, Anglo-Indians relished Western popular music. For this marginalized group, this music was a way…
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Creating and Contesting Community: Indians and Afromestizos in the Late-Colonial Tierra Caliente of Guerrero, Mexico Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2006 E-ISSN: 1532-5768 DOI: 10.1353/cch.2006.0030 Andrew B. Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota Late in the afternoon of January 13, 1783 the parish priest of…
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Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America Duke University Press 2009 320 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4401-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4420-9 Edited by: Matthew D. O’Hara, Assistant Professor of History University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Fisher, Associate Professor of History Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota In colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with…
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Origin, Development and Maintenance of a Louisiana Mixed-Blood Community: The Ethnohistory of the Freejacks of the First Ward Settlement Ethnohistory Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring, 1979) pages 177-192 Darrell A. Posey Georgia State University The Fifth Ward Settlement is composed of approximately 2,500 mixed-blood (Black, While and Indian) inhabitants called “Freejacks.” The Settlement has developed…
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‘Pretos’ and ‘Pardos’ between the Cross and the Sword: Racial Categories in Seventeenth Century Brazil European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Number 80 (April 2006) Constructing Ethnic Labels pages 43-55 Hebe Mattos, Professor of History and Coordinator of the LABHOI/UFF Memory of Slavery Oral History Project University Federal Fluminense, Brazil This paper discusses…
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Professor Alcira Dueñas: Illuminating the Andes: Indigenous and Mestizo Intellectuals in Colonial Peru ¿Qué Pasa, OSU? Ohio State University Autumn 2009 Michael J. Alarid A citizen of Colombia, Professor Alcira Dueñas is a historian who conducts research on the cultural and intellectual history of Amerindians and other subordinated groups of the Peruvian Andes during the…
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Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, “Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”” highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the “lettered city” as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites.