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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An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’ History Workshop Journal 2002 Volume 53, Number 1 pages 17-42 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/53.1.17 Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton William G. Allen, the child of a free mulatto mother…
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A compilation of the explosive reactions to interracial love and marriage in antebellum America.
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Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of…
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The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Carolina Academic Press January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-89089-085-1 Hardback Robert F. Turner, Associate Director at the Center for National Security Law University of Virginia School of Law In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from across the country to carefully examine…
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Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery Cornell University Press 2005 254 pages, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-0-8014-4384-8 Carolyn Vellenga Berman Department of Humanities The New School, New York The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French,…
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The slaves imported from Africa by no means represented “pure Negro races.” Of the original tribal stocks, many had admixture of Caucasoid genes from crosses with Mediterranean peoples. During the slave trade more white genes were added. The Portuguese who settled on the Guinea Coast had relations with the natives. The slave traders themselves were…