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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Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994 Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 32, Number 3 (September, 2006) pages 467-487 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town This article seeks to explain the basic impulses behind coloured exclusivity in…
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“White Negroes” in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, Racial Identity, and the Law The Journal of Southern History Volume 64, Number 2 (May, 1998) pages 247-276 Victoria E. Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Not until David L. Cohn returned to his native Mississippi after an absence of two decades did he understand the…
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Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro.
The Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection is a collection of 19th-century anti-slavery pamphlets received in 1923 from the executors of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), the distinguished Liberal Member of Parliament for Sheffield.
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Pinturas de Casta: Mexican Caste Paintings, a Foucauldian Reading New Readings School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Volume 10 (July 2009) page 1-17 Nasheli Jiménez del Val Cardiff University This article looks at the genre of casta painting developed in colonial Mexico during the eighteenth century. The genre consists of a series of paintings representing…
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Mexican Art Genre Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing
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In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe (1954-2010) Perspectives on History November 2010 Estelle Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University Scholar of gender, race, and the U.S. West; 2009 winner of AHA’s William H. Dunning Prize and Joan Kelly Prize Peggy Pascoe, the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of ethnic studies…
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“The devil made the mulatto”: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history.…
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Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World Gender & History Volume 22, Issue 3 (November 2010) pages 585–602 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x Brooke N. Newman, John Carter Brown Library Scholar (2010-2011) University of Oxford In recent years, scholars have directed considerable attention to the influence of gender relations and sexual practices…
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History’s most sordid cover-up New African February 2004 Stella Orakwue The history of the former European colonies’ mixed-race populations is one of the world’s biggest hidden scandals. How did these populations come about? We did not miraculously or biblically produce mixed-race babies from thin air. Most of the black women were raped… …Her children come…