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 Invisible Line: American families’ journeys from black to white Research news@Vanderbilt Vanderbilt University 2011-02-17 Amy Wolf The idea of someone transitioning from black to white, without science or surgery, seems hard to grasp on the surface. Yet Vanderbilt Law School professor Daniel J. Sharfstein finds that African Americans have continually crossed the color line…
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Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.) [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 90, Number 3 (December 2003) page 1107 DOI: 10.2307/3661030 David Rich Lewis, Professor of History Utah State University, Logan Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah.…
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Termination’s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah University of Nebraska Press 2002 311 pages Illus., maps Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-3201-3; Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2251-9 R. Warren Metcalf, Associate Professor of United States History University of Oklahoma Termination’s Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who…
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Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas Texas Tech University Press 2003 256 pages 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches Paper ISBN-10: 0896725162, ISBN-13: 978-0896725164 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, black runaways braved an…
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Interview with Daniel J. Sharfstein, author of “The Invisible Line” The Christian Science Monitor 2011-02-23 Stacie Williams, Monitor Contributor In “The Invisible Line,” law professor Daniel J. Sharfstein uses the stories of three families to explore the fluid nature of racial identity in America. Race has never been an easy concept in this country; the…
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Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen University of Iowa Press 1993 255 pages, 10 photos Paper 0-87745-437-X, 978-0-87745-437-3 Charles R. Larson, Professor of Literature American University Invisible Darkness offers a striking interpretation of the tortured lives of the two major novelists of the Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer, author of Cane (1923), and Nella Larsen,…