Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

    The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White St. Martin’s Press an imprint of Macmillan February 1999 ISBN: 978-0-312-25393-6 ISBN10: 0-312-25393-1 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 400 pages, Plus 16-page b&w photo insert Henry Wiencek Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America,…

  • Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture

    Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture University of Minnesota Press 2006 272 pages 15 halftones; 5 7⁄8 x 9 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-4595-7 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4595-4 Cloth ISBN: 0-8166-4594-9 Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4594-7 Rafael Pérez-Torres, Professor and Chair of English University of California, Los Angeles A major reassessment of how mixed-race identity affects Chicano culture and…

  • Belonging to Britain

    Belonging to Britain The Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto 2008-11-14 Video Length: 00:46:36 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University In her lecture, “Belonging to Britain”, Hazel Carby looks at the historic relationship between England and Jamaica, including the history of the slave…

  • Brown Babies in Britain

    Brown Babies in Britain Radcliffe Quarterly Winter 2007 Dean’s Lecture Series Julia Hanna When white British women met black servicemen during World War II, mixed-race children sometimes resulted from their relationships. In her November 2 [2007] Dean’s Lecture, Hazel V. Carby addressed issues of race and class by drawing on scholarship and personal experience as…

  • Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing, and Region

    This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England’s past.

  • The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction

    The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction Rutgers University Press 2004-09-29 202 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3481-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-3482-4 Eve Allegra Raimon, Professor, Arts & Humanities University of Southern Maine Since its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and…

  • A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America

    This collection of new essays enters one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time–the subject of ethnicity. The recent vigorous debates being waged over questions raised by the phenomenon of multiculturalism in America highlight the fact that American culture has arisen out of an unusually rich and interactive ethnic mix.

  • “Miscegenation” Making Race in America

    In “Miscegenation,” Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race.

  • Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850–2000

    In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century.

  • Who’s Your Mama? “White” Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom

    Who’s Your Mama? “White” Mulatta Genealogies, Early Photography, and Anti-Passing Narratives of Slavery and Freedom American Literary History Volume 14, Number 3 (Fall 2002) DOI: 10.1093/alh/14.3.505 pages 505-359 P. Gabrielle Foreman, Professor of English and American Studies Occidental College Partus sequitur ventrem. The child follows the condition of the mother. US slave law and custom…