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 First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Volume 45, Number 2 (Spring 2011) pages 31-57 E-ISSN: 1911-0251; Print ISSN: 0021-9495 DOI: 10.1353/jcs.2011.0022 Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor of English University of Toronto This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance:…
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A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 University of Nebraska Press 2000 233 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-8293-3 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great…
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Public Ceremonies and Mulatto Identity in Viceregal Lima: A Colonial Reenactment of the Fall of Troy (1631) Colonial Latin American Review Volume 16, Issue 2 (2007) pages 179-201 DOI: 10.1080/10609160701644490 José R. Jouve-Martín, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada Colonial Spanish America was a highly ritualized society. From single events to…
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Racial group boundaries and identities: People of ‘mixed‐race’ in slavery across the Americas Slavery & Abolition Volume 15, Issue 3 (1994) pages 17-37 DOI: 10.1080/01440399408575137 Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley One of the fundamental developments to arise as a result of the settling of the Americas by Europeans…
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Racial mixture and civil war: The histories of the U.S. South and Mexico in the novels of William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes Michigan State University 2008 266 pages Publication Number: AAT 3331903 ISBN: 9780549837800 Emron Lee Esplin, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia A Dissertation Submitted to Michigan State…
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The arrival of Europeans in the Caribbean brought about irreversible demographic change. Decimated by defeat and disease, ‘peaceful’ Arawaks and ‘warlike’ Caribs alike ceased to exist as an identifiable ethnic group, their gene pool dissolving into that of the newcomers, where it died away or remained un-investigated.