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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Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Indiana University Press 2004-10-12 160 pages 1 bibliog., 1 index, 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21733-2; ISBN: 0-253-21733-4 Cassandra Jackson, Professor of English The College of New Jersey This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of…
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Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.
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“Taking Assimilation to Heart” examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937.
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An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers.
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Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique University of Pennsylvania Press July 2009 312 pages 6 x 9; 7 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4172-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8122-2227-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0356-1 Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Associate Professor of History Texas A & M University From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France’s Atlantic empire.…
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Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel University of Texas Press September 2009 198 pages 6 x 9 in.; 1 map ISBN: 978-0-292-71920-0 (hardcover, no dust jacket) ISBN: 978-0-292-72128-9 (paperback) Emma Pérez, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story…
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans Harvard University Press 2009 400 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 19 halftones in 20 p mock insert Hardcover ISBN: 9780674023512 Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Associate Professor in American Studies University of Texas, Austin New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city…
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Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference? At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, “The Amalgamation Waltz” investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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How the courts dealt with wills bequeathing property or freedom to mixed race children.
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From Wikipedia: The Tragic mulatto is a stereotypical fictional character that appeared in American literature during the 19th and 20th centuries. The “tragic mulatto” is an archetypical mixed race person (a “mulatto”), who is assumed to be sad or even suicidal because he/she fails to completely fit in the “white world” or the “black world”. As…