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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An in-depth conversation on the artist’s big influences, from Keith Haring to Moby Dick
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Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Harvard University Press 2022-03-22 320 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 21 photos, 1 table Hardcover ISBN: 9780674244269 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor; Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Andrew…
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“In Generations of Freedom” Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom under shifting international governance from Spanish colonial rule (1779-95), through American acquisition (1795) and eventual statehood (established in 1817), and finally to slavery’s legal demise…
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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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Riverbend Plantation, isolated and decaying, had seen many strange events, passionate conflict and tragic romance.
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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.
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This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.”
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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery University of North Carolina Press September 2011 (originally published in 1840) 50 pages 6 x 9, 4 illustrations Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-6965-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-6966-6 Moses Roper (c1815-1891) The Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper can be read as…
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‘I am not a beggar’: Moses Roper, Black Witness and the Lost Opportunity of British Abolitionism Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Published online 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2022.2027656 Fionnghuala Sweeney, Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literatures Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Bruce E. Baker, Historian Paxton, Scotland, United Kingdom…
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Martha Wheeler, Eye-Witness to the “Free State of Jones” Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2017-07-02 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos Matthew McConaughey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Newt and Rachel, “The Free State of Jones,” STX Entertainment (2016) I’ll never forget the excitement I felt when, in the…