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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The ‘Native’ Undefined: Colonial Categories, Anglo-African Status and the Politics of Kinship in British Central Africa, 1929-38 The Journal of African History Volume 46, Issue 3 (2005) pages 455-478 DOI: 10.1017/S0021853705000861 Christopher Joon-Hai Lee University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This article examines the categorical problem that persons of ‘mixed-race’ background presented to British administrations…
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The Chinese Mestizo in Philippine History The Journal of Southeast Asian History Volume 5, Number 1 (March 1964) pages 62-100 DOI: 10.1017/S0217781100002222 Edgar Wickberg (1927-2008), Professor Emeritus of History University of British Columbia Our knowledge is still insufficient to allow us to assess the overall significance of the mestizo in Philippine history. But on the…
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Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991 Duke University Press 2000 424 pages 21 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 1 table Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2385-3 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2420-1 Marisol de la Cadena, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of California, Davis In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected…
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Redeeming the “Character of the Creoles”: Whiteness, Gender and Creolization in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 23, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 40–72 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2009.01359.x Yvonne Fabella, Lecturer of History University of Pennsylvania This article examines the political significance of white creolization in pre-revolutionary French Saint Domingue. Eighteenth-century Europeans tended to view…
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Multiethnic Multiracial Experience (Ethnic Studies 199) University of Oregon Winter 2010 Anselmo Villanueva, Ph.D. This course will focus on the multiracial multiethnic experience in the United States, with particular emphasis on the Northwest. This course will provide students with a framework to understand this experience. The course will cover the history and background of the…
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VIS409 Mixed Race Women’s Memoirs Antioch University, Midwest Winter 2010 This course is designed as a multidisciplinary exploration of race, gender, and identity utilizing oral and written narratives of Black-white mixed race women from the mid-nineteenth century to the present as source material. Drawing from elements of cultural studies, African American studies, American studies, and…
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Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance University of Michigan Press 2006 256 pages 6 x 9. 29 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-472-09955-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-472-06955-2 Alicia Arrizón, Professor of Women’s Studies University of California, Riverside Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Co-winner of the 2007 Modern…