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 day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him “the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington.” For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation’s most visible and most powerful African-American leader.
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Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance Literature Compass Volume 3, Issue 4 (July 2006) pages 648–657 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This essay surveys recent scholarship on interracial romance during the nineteenth century using the hoax Miscegenation pamphlet of 1863 as a lens.…
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Illegal fictions : white women writers and the miscegenated imagination 1857-1869 (E. D. E. N. Southworth, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Lydia Maria Child) Indiana University 2000 Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This dissertation examines how popular nineteenth-century white women writers depicted interracial romance in their fiction.…
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The Shadow King Mariner Books an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2004-11-23 320 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 Paperback ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618485369; ISBN-10: 0618485368 Jane Stevenson, Regius Chair of Humanity University of Aberdeen In The Shadow King, Jane Stevenson illuminates the world of the intriguing Balthasar Stuart, the secret biracial child born of the illicit…
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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race, 2nd Edition Routledge 1994-12-14 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-31183-0 Robert J. C. Young, Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature New York University As one of the most important books in post-colonial studies, this book argues that contemporary theories on post-colonialism and ethnicity are disturbingly close to…
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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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Trading Races: Joseph and Marie Bunel, a Diplomat and a Merchant in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue and Philadelphia Journal of the Early Republic Volume 30, Number 3, Fall 2010 pages 351-376 E-ISSN: 1553-0620 Print ISSN: 0275-1275 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Based on extensive research in French, British, and…