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 blood mixture which experience has shown furnishes the very highest grade of citizen-material”: Selective Assimilation in a Polynesian Case of Naturalization to U.S. Citzenship American Studies (ISSN: ISSN 0026-3079) Volume 45, Number 3 (Fall 2004) pages 33-48 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology Wesleyan University On the 11th of July,…
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Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese Mexican Relations in the Borderlands Pacific Historical Review Volume 79, Number 1 (February 2010) Pages 50–85 DOI: 10.1525/phr.2010.79.1.50 Julian Lim Cornell University Using the testimonio of Manuel Lee Mancilla, a Chinese Mexican man born in Mexicali in 1921, this article explores the experiences of the Chinese in northern Mexico in the…
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“Sons of White Fathers”: Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” Nineteenth-Century Literature Volume 65, Number 1 (June 2010) Pages 1–37 DOI: 10.1525/ncl.2010.65.1.1 Marlene L. Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California Although many literary critics have traced the genealogy of the tragic mulatto/a to…
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History and Current Status of the Houma Indians Midcontinent American Studies Journal Volume 6, Number 2 (Fall 1965) pages 149-163 Ann Fischer Tulane University Brewton Berry, in Almost White, reports that there are some 200 groups of “racial orphans” in the United States. Among these, those who have some claim to Indian ancestry are known as…
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Mitsawokett to Bloomsbury: Archaeology and History of a Native-American Descendant Community in Central Delaware Chapter 5. A Larger Ethnic Community 2008 383 pages Delaware Department of Transportation Project 88-110-01 Federal Highway Administration Project F-NH-1003(13) Delaware Department of Transportation Archæological Series Number 154 Carolann Wicks, Secretary Original and redraft prepared by Edward F. Heite and Cara L.…
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Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the Segregated South The University of Arkansas Press 2003 160 pages 6″x9″ Paper: 1-55728–833-X (978-1-55728-833-2) Cloth: 1-55728-755-4 (978-1-55728-755-7) Charles F. Robinson II, Associate Professor of History, Vice Provost for Diversity, and Director of African American Studies program University of Arkansas In the tumultuous decades after the Civil War, as…
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Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté [Book Review] H-France Review (Society for French Historical Studies) Volume 8, Number 162 (November 2008) pages 654-657 Marie-Paule Ha The University of Hong Kong Emmanuelle Saada, Les Enfants de la colonie: Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté. Paris: Editions…