Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother (10th Anniversary Edition)

    James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother’s past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut.

  • Was first black priest black enough?

    Was first black priest black enough? Chicago Tribune 2010-05-02 Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter Healy, son of a plantation owner, isn’t mentioned as often as Tolton, who is being pushed for sainthood More than a year after some African-Americans scrutinized the blackness of the nation’s first black president, America’s Catholics are now wrestling with the…

  • Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy

    Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy Hypatia Volume 10, Issue 1 (February 1995) Pages 120 – 132 Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Social Policy, Part 1 DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.1995.tb01356.x Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The American folk concept of race assumes the factual existence of races. However, biological science does not…

  • Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country

    Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Duke University Press 2006 392 pages 7 illustrations, 1 table Edited by: Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies University of Michigan Sharon Patricia Holland, Associate Professor of English; African & African American Studies Duke University Contributors: Joy…

  • Becoming Modern Racialized Subjects: Detours through our pasts to produce ourselves anew

    Becoming Modern Racialized Subjects: Detours through our pasts to produce ourselves anew Cultural Studies Volume 23, Number 4 (July 2009) pages 624-657 DOI: 10.1080/09502380902950948 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University This essay is a close engagement with the work of Stuart Hall which has been…

  • African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens

    Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free African Cherokees from the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma’s entry into…

  • May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society

    May Ayim: A Woman in the Margin of German Society The Florida State University College of Arts and Scienes Spring Semester, 2005 76 pages Margaret MacCarroll, Professor of Modern Languages: German Division Florida State University A thesis submitted to the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…

  • Passing and the Fictions of Identity

    These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries.

  • Racial Discrimination and Miscegenation: The Experience in Brazil

    In 1888, Brazil, with a mostly black and mixed race or mulatto population, was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery. During more than 300 years of slavery in the Americas, it was the largest importer of African slaves, bringing in seven times as many African slaves to the country, compared to…

  • Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule

    Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Ohio State University Press May 2010 161 pages 6×9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8142-1126-7 CD ISBN: 978-0-8142-9224-2 Shuchi Kapila, Associate Professor of English Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Even though Edward Said’s Orientalism inspired several generations of scholars to study the English novel’s close involvement with…