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: Slavery
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Skinship: Dialectical Passing Plots in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative American Literary Realism Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2014 pages 116-136 Martha J. Cutter, Professor of English and Africana Studies University of Connecticut Racial definitions were in crisis within the U.S. during the mid-nineteenth century, with the country moving closer and closer to a Civil…
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‘We are Iranians’: Rediscovering the history of African slavery in Iran Middle East Eye 2016-05-09 Jillian D’Amours ST CATHARINES, Canada – Behnaz Mirzai’s students often say her office is like a museum. With shards of ancient pottery recovered from the mountains of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, colourful vases from Isfahan, and tribal masks from…
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Zwarte Piet is a product of the Netherlands’ long involvement in the slave trade Media Diversified 2016-05-05 Karen Williams The first time that I saw a photograph of the Zwarte Piet celebrations in the Netherlands, the door to questions of slavery in my own life swung wide open. There – right there – looking back…
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This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, when the union of the Spanish and Portuguese crowns facilitated a surge in the transatlantic slave trade.
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At Yale, a Right That Doesn’t Outweigh a Wrong The New York Times 2016-04-29 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut NEW HAVEN — Yale made a grievous mistake this week when it announced that it would keep the…
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The Man Who Stole Himself: The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan University of Chicago Press 2016 264 pages 8 color plates, 49 halftones 6 x 9 Gísli Pálsson, Professor of Anthropology University of Iceland The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of…
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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians University of North Carolina Press September 2015 270 pages 8 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl., index 6.125 x 9.25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2443-3 Angela Pulley Hudson, Associate Professor of History Texas A&M University In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed…
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“A Escrava Isaura,” the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimarães, was one of a number of late 19th century works of fiction in Brazil that focused on abolitionism.
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Thomas Jefferson spent years raping his slave Sally Hemings. A new novel treats their relationship as a love story. Vox 2016-04-08 Constance Grady A new historical novel about Thomas Jefferson is raising eyebrows. Stephen O’Connor’s Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, which came out on Tuesday, is about our third president’s relationship with Sally Hemings,…