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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A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 124, Number 491 (Winter 2011) pages 120-121 E-ISSN: 1535-1882 Print ISSN: 0021-8715 Sharon Downey Varner Department of English University of South Alabama Hodes, Martha. A Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love,…
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The Catholic Church and the Formation of Metis Identity Past Imperfect Volume 9 (2001) pages 65-87 Jacinthe Duval This essay explores the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Metis in the Red River colony in the nineteenth century. It demonstrates how missionaries, via their intellectual artifacts, have been responsible for shaping popular contemporary…
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Moya `Tipimsook (“The People Who Aren’t Their Own Bosses”): Racialization and the Misrecognition of “Métis” in Upper Great Lakes Ethnohistory Volume 58, Number 1 (Winter 2011) pages 37-63 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-2010-063 Chris Andersen, Associate Professor of Native Studies University of Alberta Scholars have long noted the central place of racialization in the last five centuries of…
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This is a story of two hidden identities.
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The Seminole Freedmen: A History University of Oklahoma Press 2007 480 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138657 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles Captures the distinct identity and history of the Seminole maroons Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique…
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We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community University of Oklahoma Press 2006 304 pages 6″ x 9″ Illustrations: 8 b&w illus., 5 tables Hardcover ISBN: 9780806137056 Martha Harroun Foster, Associate Professor of History Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro They know who they are. Of predominantly Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent,…
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A shameful history: Nowhere People: How International Race Thinking Shaped Australia’s Identity [Book Review] The Lancet Volume 366, Issue 9495 (October 2005) page 1428 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67586 Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Director of the Clinical School James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns Campus, North Queensland, Australia Nowhere People: How International Race…
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A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America, edited by Frank Shuffelton (Oxford University Press, 1993) [Review] African American Review Volume 29, Number 1 (Spring 1995) pages 149-152 Raymond F. Dolle, Associate Professor of English Indiana State University A Mixed Race extends the recent work of ethnographic critics, such as James Clifford (The Predicament of Culture:…
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Nowhere People Penguin Books Australia January 2005 300 pages Paperback ISBN-13:9780143001911 Henry Reynolds, Emeritus Associate Professor of History and Politics James Cook University, Australia ‘That’s how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person… Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my…
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Dominica in Brooklyn The New York Times 2011-01-13 Carol Vogel, Art Reporter The Brooklyn Museum has acquired an 18th-century painting by Agostino Brunias, a little-known London-based Italian artist. Around 1764 the British government sent Brunias to the West Indies to document one of that empire’s newest colonies, Dominica. Depicting two richly dressed mulatto women on…