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: Passing
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The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America [Review: Eubanks] The Washington Independent Review of Books 2011-07-04 W. Ralph Eubanks, Director of Publishing at the Library of Congress Author of Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road Julie Winch, The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in…
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The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America Hill and Wang (an imprint of Macmillan) May 2011 432 pages 6 x 9 inches, 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations ISBN: 978-0-8090-9517-9, ISBN10: 0-8090-9517-3 Julie Winch, Professor of History University of Massachusetts, Boston The historian Julie Winch uses her sweeping, multigenerational history of the unforgettable Clamorgans…
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Brown on the Inside: Multiracial Individuals and White Privilege Oregon State University 2011-04-27 147 pages Shannon D. Quihuiz A Thesis submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Biracial and Multiracial people are one of the fastest growing racial groups in the United States. Individuals…
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Long Lance National Film Board of Canada 1986 Running Time: 00:55:00 Bernie Dichek, Director Was he a black man, a white man, or an Indian chief? This documentary looks at legendary and fascinating impostor Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant…
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Pigmentocracy Freedom’s Story: Teaching African American Literature and History National Humanities Center April 2010 Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, Emerita University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Definition and Background In the past couple of decades, the word pigmentocracy has come into common usage to refer to the distinctions that people of African…
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A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” The Feminist Wire 2011-04-29 Soyica Colbert, Assistant Professor of English Dartmouth College Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6, 2011 to guffaws…
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Crossing Over: Racial Passing and Racial Uplift in Nella Larsen’s Fiction University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee 2009 34 pages Karly D. Beavers Senior Honors Thesis in American Studies Fundamental to the American myth is a juxtaposition of the “civilized” or “superior” majority with the “inferior” other. By classifying African Americans as inherently different from…
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Fifteenth Union: A Melungeon Gathering Melungeon Heritage Association Carolina Connections: Roots and Branches of Mixed Ancestry Communities Warren Wilson College Swannanoa, North Carolina 2011-07-14 through 2011-07-16 MHA is delighted to announce that this year our annual Union will be celebrated at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, July 14-16, 2011. This will be our first…
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White Skin, White Masks: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique and Louisiana University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2006 83 pages Michael James Rulon A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master…