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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The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children
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Marie Therese Coincoin was born into slavery in French Colonial Louisiana then gained her own freedom and the freedom of many of her children.
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Kyla Kupferstein describes how her yiddishkeyt was sparked by her Buba and Zayda in the Bronx and what her Jewish journey has been like since then.
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More recently the concept of frontier has given way to the idea of borders and borderlands, where peoples and cultures have intermingled and interacted. In “Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West,” Anne F. Hyde examines family life in the borderlands; her carefully wrought portrait of five families…
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Historicizing Race Bloomsbury Academic (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing) 2018-02-22 200 pages 9 x 6 inches Hardback ISBN: 9781441184245 Paperback ISBN: 9781441143679 Ebook (Epub & Mobi) ISBN: 9781441158246 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781441180162 Marius Turda, Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom Maria Sophia Quine, Senior Research Fellows…
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Charles’s interweaving of the historical and the literary is a welcome addition to this growing field of passing studies.
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A fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries.
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World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history―from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden.