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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A Citizen of Fine Spirit William Mitchell Magazine Volume 18, Issue 2, Fall 2000 pages 2-6 Douglas R. Heidenreich, Emeritus Professor of Law Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul, Minnesota Minnesota Historical Society William T. Francis was (1869-1929), by most measures, the most successful of the early African American alumni of William Mitchell College…
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Race and Medicine in America (AMST 256 – 01) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Fall 2016 Megan H. Glick, Assistant Professor of American Studies This course will trace ideas of race in American medical science and its cultural contexts, from the late 19th century to the present. We will explore how configurations of racial difference have…
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The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution University of North Carolina Press June 2016 Approx. 640 pages 21 halftones, 1 figs., 7 maps, 33 tables, notes, index 6.125 x 9.25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-4696-2663-5 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Robert G. Parkinson, Assistant Professor…
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The Pain of Passing Reviews in American History Volume 44, Number 2, June 2016 pages 264-269 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2016.0028 Renee Romano, Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Comparative American Studies Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Allyson Hobbs. A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 382 pp. Figures,…
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Strange Fruit: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Fulcrum Publishing May 2014 176 pages 8 X 10 Paperback ISBN: 9781938486296 Joel Christian Gill Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles…
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Becoming Black, White, and Indian in Wisconsin Farm Country, 1850s–1910s Middle West Review Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 2016 pages 53-84 DOI: 10.1353/mwr.2016.0009 Jennifer Kirsten Stinson, Associate Professor of History Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, Michigan Fig 1. Location of the Revels kindred community in Forest Township, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Map courtesy of the…
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Calidad, Genealogy, and Disputed Free-colored Tributary Status in New Spain The Americas Volume 73, Number 2, April 2016 pages 139-170 Norah Andrews, Assistant Professor of World History Georgian Court University, Lakewood, New Jersey In 1787, a group of Indians from the town of Almoloya, part of Apan in the Intendancy of Mexico, aired their grievances…