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: Book/Video Reviews
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Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America [Review: Diner] American Historical Review Volume 96, Number 2 (April 1991) pages 624-625 Hasia R. Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History; Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies New York University Paul R. Spickard. Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century…
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Shades of White The New York Times 2011-02-25 Raymond Arsenault, Visiting Scholar, Florida State University Study Center in London and John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp.…
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Tracing lives of three ‘white’ families and their black forebears The Boston Globe 2011-02-20 Dan Cryer, Globe Correspondent Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781594202827. Randall Lee Gibson, an urbane, Yale-educated Confederate general, mocked black…
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 4, Spring 2011 pages 661-663 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 Mary Niall Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New Orleans University Shirley Elizabeth Thompson. Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans.…
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The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820, ed. Simon Schaffer, Lissa Roberts, Kapil Raj, James Delbourgo; Science History Publications, Sagamore Beach MA, 2009; 552 pp.; 0-88135-374-4.
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Race Crossing in Man (Eugenics Lab. Mem. XXXVI) [Review] American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 6, Number 1 (March 1954) pages 195–196 Kenneth S. Brown University of Chicago By J. C. Trevor, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1953, Pp. 45 This brief monograph is a mixed blessing. On one hand it demonstrates what a wealth…
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This book contains the results of Prof. Fischer’s investigations and is a model for those who will follow in his footsteps. His observations have convinced him that a new and permanent human race cannot be formed by the amalgamation of two diverse forms of man–not from any want of fertility—for amongst the Bastards there is…
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“Race Crossing in Man: The Analysis of Metrical Characters” [Review by L. C. Dunn] Race Crossing in Man: The Analysis of Metrical Characters. J. C. Trevor (“Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs,” XXXVI.) London: Cambridge University Press, 1953. 45 pp., 1 plate. American Anthropologist Volume 56, Issue 5 (October 1954) pages 923-924 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1954.56.5.02a00490 L. C. Dunn Columbia…
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Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiah [Amaye Review] New Black Arts Alliance 2011-02-18 Muli Amaye, Part 1 Tutor, Creative Writing Lancaster University Daniel R. McNeil. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp. Hardback ISBN 978-0-415-87226-3, Paperback ISBN 978-0-415-89391-6, eBook…