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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In 1805, a New Orleans newspaper advertisement formally defined a new social institution, the infamous Quadroon Ball, in which prostitution and plaçage–a system of concubinage–converged. These elegant balls, limited to upper-class white men and free “quadroon” women, became interracial rendezvous that provided evening entertainment and the possibility of forming sexual liaisons in exchange for financial…
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Telling “Forgotten” Métis Histories through Family, Community, and Individuals [Book Review] H-Net Reviews October 2009 Camie Augustus University of Saskatchewan David McNab, Ute Lischke, eds. The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007. viii + 386 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-88920-523-9. “We are still here.” This opening…
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The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories Wilfrid Laurier University Press May 2007 370 pages ISBN13: 978-0-88920-523-9 Editors: Ute Lischke, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies Wilfrid Laurier University David T. McNab, Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies York University, Toronto Known as “Canada’s forgotten people,” the Métis have long…
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Women-Loving Women: Queering Black Urban Space during the Harlem Renaissance Women’s Studies 197: Senior Seminar 2010-06-07 Professor Lilith Mahmud Samantha Tenorio The experience of black “women-loving-women” during the Harlem Renaissance is directly influenced by what Kimberlé Crenshaw terms intersectional identity, or their positioning in the social hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation that…
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“Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community” is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life.