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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Runaway Western Carolinian Salisbury, North Carolina 1832-09-17 page 3, column 6 Source: The North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project On the 10th of September last, from my plantation in Jones county, two negroes, one named WASHINGTON, about 27 years of age, a very bright mulatto, on one of his hands there is a scar occasioned by…
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AAS 490: Special Topics in Black World Studies: Section 008: Race and “Black Indians” University of Michigan Winter 2013 Theme Semester Courses Tiya Miles, Professor of American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Native American Studies This seven week mini course is a special winter 2013 offering for the LSA Theme Semester on Race. The…
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Hist7362: Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America University College of London 2013 Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in Latin American History This course examines race and ethnicity, and processes of racialised and ethnic exclusion, in Latin America in historical perspective. It invites us to consider the historical role played by race and ethnicity…
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Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique (Review) French History Volume 27, Issue 1 (2013) pages 135-137 DOI: 10.1093/fh/crs158 Emily Musil Church, Assistant Professor of History Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique. By Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009. 312 pp. ISBN: 978…
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The Origins and Authors of the Code Noir Louisiana Law Review Volume 56, Number 2 (Winter 1996) pages 363-407 Vernon Valentine Palmer, Thomas Pickles Professor of Law Tulane University, New Orleans I. Introduction The Code Noir marked France’s historic rendezvous with slavery in the Americas. It was one of the most important codes in the…
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Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool Princeton University Press 2005 312 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-1-4008-2641-4 Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hunter College of the City University of New York The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its…
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Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in a southern family in dispersal and decline.
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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. Steven F. Riley 2011-02-28 “This is the decade of Tiger Woods and Barack Obama, where we talked about race combinations,” Robert Groves, director of the federal agency, said…