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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North of America: Racial hybridity and Canada’s (non)place in inter-American discourse Comparative American Studies: An International Journal Volume 3, Number 1 (March 2005) pages 79-88 DOI: 10.1177/1477570005050951 Albert Braz, Associate Professor of English University of Alberta, Canada Canada is one of the largest countries in the Americas, indeed the world. Yet, for such a territorial…
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Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century [Book Review] H-Africa H-Net Reviews March 2004 Eric S. Ross, Coordinator, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco George Brooks’s Eurafricans in Western Africa is the sequel to his Landlords and Strangers (1993).…
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“Eurafricans in Western Africa” traces the rich social and commercial history of western Africa. The most comprehensive study to date, it begins prior to the sixteenth century when huge profits made by middlemen on trade in North African slaves, salt, gold, pepper, and numerous other commodities prompted Portuguese reconnaissance voyages along the coast of western…
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The Society for French Historical Studies 57th Annual Meeting Sponsored by The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina The Francis Marion Hotel Charleston, South Carolina 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Includes the following sessions: 1A “Representation and Commemoration in France and Its Colonies”… Black and White: Figuring the Senegalese Signares [definition in French] Thérèse De Raedt, Associate…
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Passings That Pass in America: Crossing Over and Coming Back to Tell About It The History Teacher Volume 40, Number 4 (August 2007) 32 paragraphs Donald Reid, Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill TEMPORARILY PASSING as an other is a universal fantasy and a not uncommon practice. From Arab potentates dressed as…
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Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 3, Winter 2010 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 pages 478-480 Adriane Lentz-Smith, Hunt Family Assistant Professor History Duke Univeristy In October 1924, Leonard Rhinelander, scion of a wealthy and well-established New York family, wed Alice Jones,…
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French110s: From Haiti to New Orleans John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University Fall 2010 Deborah Jenson Haiti Lab: Undergraduate Opportunities The first Humanities Laboratory at Duke, one of the key goals of the Haiti Lab is to bring innovative, interdisciplinary research more fully into the undergraduate experience at Duke and, indeed, to invite undergraduates…
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Greg Carroll Draws Large Crowd for Talk on Melungeon Heritage West Virginia Archives & History West Virginia Division of Culture & History Volume 11, Number 8 (October 2010) page 2 Archives historian Greg Carroll drew a large crowd for his talk [2010-09-09] on groups of people in the Appalachian area and beyond commonly called Melungeon.…
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Biracial Americans: The Advantages of White Blood Chapter 8 of An Historical Analysis of Skin Color Discrimination in America Springer 2010 200 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5504-3 Chapter: pages 109-126 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5505-0_8 Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Similar to that of Native Americans, the genesis of victim-group discrimination for biracial Americans…