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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Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite artdaily.org: The First Art Newspaper on the Net 2011-01-18 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs. Carll H. de Silver in memory of her…
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Because antidiscrimination efforts have focused primarily on race, courts have largely ignored discrimination within racial classifications on the basis of skin color. In this Article, Professor Jones brings light to this area by examining the historical and contemporary significance of skin color in the United States.
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Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law (Anderson review)
Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law (Anderson review) The Catholic Historical Review Volume 97, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 179-180 E-ISSN: 1534-0708, Print ISSN: 0008-8080 R. Bentley Anderson, S. J. Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies Fordham University In Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American…
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Crossing borders, erasing boundaries: Interethnic marriages in Tucson, 1854-1930 University of Arizona 392 pages Publication Number: AAT 3398995 ISBN: 9781109735864 Salvador Acosta A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of History In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate College The University of Arizona This…
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The Enigma Of Jefferson: Mind and Body In Conflict The New York Times 1998-11-07 Dinitia Smith For contemporary historians, Thomas Jefferson has always been an enigma, and the new DNA evidence that he fathered at least one child by his young slave Sally Hemings simply deep ens the mystery of the man. On the one…
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The Chinese in the Caribbean [Book Reveiw] Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 3, Issue 1 (Spring 2005) 8 paragraphs ISSN 1547-7150 Kathryn Morris Andrew R. Wilson, Editor. The Chinese in the Caribbean. Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2004, xxiii+230 pp. The Hakka are a migratory people. We move outwards on the tides of history. Most of…
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DNA Is Only One Way to Spell Identity The Washington Post 2006-01-01 W. Ralph Eubanks Every year,” I once overheard my father say jokingly to a friend, “thousands of Negroes disappear.” I remember my 8-year-old imagination going into overdrive, picturing people zapped from their homes in the middle of the night. It was only as…
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Transgressing Boundaries: A History of the Mixed Descent Families of Maitapapa, Taieri, 1830-1940 University of Canterbury, New Zealand 2004 393 pages Angela Wanhalla, Lecturer in History University of Otago, New Zealand A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of Canterbury This thesis…