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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Mistaken identity The Boston Globe 2005-02-20 Holly Jackson What if a novelist celebrated as a pioneer of African-American women’s literature turned out not to be black at all? IN THE LATE 1980s, scholars of African-American studies carried out the most impressive American literary recovery project to date, excavating and reprinting the works of numerous unjustly…
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Plessy and Ferguson unveil plaque today marking their ancestors’ actions New Orleans Times-Picayune 2009-02-11 Katy Reckdahl Today, Plessy versus Ferguson becomes Plessy and Ferguson, when descendants of opposing parties in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court segregation case stand together to unveil a plaque at the former site of the Press Street Railroad Yards. Standing behind…
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Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Volume 11, Issue 3 (2010) pages 355-374 DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2010.484172 Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside This paper tells a story about miscegenation between US military personnel and Okinawan women from 1945-1952, which includes…
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From Mariage à la Mode to Weddings at Town Hall: Marriage, Colonialism, and Mixed-Race Society in Nineteenth-Century Senegal The International Journal of African Historical Studies Volume 38, Number 1 (2005) pages 27-48 Hilary Jones, Assistant Professor of African History University of Maryland The institution of marriage served as the basis for the formation of mixed-race…
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Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path Caxton Press 2006 264 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-87004-450-8 Nancy M. Peterson Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories of mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their…
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany HarperCollins 480 pages 2001 ISBN: 9780060959616 Hans J. Massaquoi (1926-2013) This is a story of the unexpected. In Destined to Witness, Hans Massaquoi has crafted a beautifully rendered memoir—an astonishing true tale of how he came of age as a black child in Nazi Germany. The son…
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Sonic spaces: Inscribing “coloured” voices in the Karoo, South Africa University of Pennsylvania 2006 228 pages Publication Number: AAT 3246175 Marie R. Jorritsma A Dissertation in Music Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A common stereotype of those classified…