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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(ANT/NAS 493): Mixed Blood: Looking at the Relationship Between Africans and Native Americans Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska Fall 2005 Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Professor of Anthropology In this course the relationship between Africans and Native Americans will be explored. “Africans and Native Americans worked as slaves and as free men together. Both groups played important…
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Rewriting a slave’s journey Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 2012-04-29 Corey Connelly In his latest publication, Caribbean History from Pre-Colonial Origins to the Present, Dr Tony Martin recaps the many social, economic and political phenomena that have shaped world history over the centuries. However, the renowned historian tackles the topics in an unapologetically fresh and detailed…
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Race War and Nation in Caribbean Gran Colombia, Cartagena, 1810–1832 American Historical Review Volume 111, Number 2, 2006 pages 336-361, 44 paragraphs Marixa Lasso, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio During the Age of Revolution, nations in the Americas faced the quandary of how to reconcile slavery and racial discrimination with…
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African-Scottish families A North East Story: Scotland, Africa and Slavery in the Caribbean 2008 This exhibition has been organised by an Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Bicentenary Committee to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Britain’s outlawing of the African slave trade in 1807. It follows on from a service of commemoration and a series of public lectures…
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The Forgotten Diaspora The Official Gateway to Scotland 2008 Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences Heriot-Watt University I was born in Jamaica in 1940, the largest British island in the Caribbean. I emigrated to London in 1955 to join my mother and earn a living. She had emigrated in 1948. In…
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A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844 University of The West Indies Press 2006 400 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-976-640-178-8 Author: Lucille Mathurin Mair (1925-2009) Edited by: Hilary McD. Beckles, Principal University of The West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados Verene A. Shepherd, University Director Centre for Gender & Dev Std-RC: Centre Research/Teaching…
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The lessons of slavery: Discourses of slavery, mestizaje, and blanqueamiento in an elementary school in Puerto Rico American Ethnologist Volume 35 Number 1 (February 2008) pages 115-135 DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00009.x Isar P. Godreau Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariolga Reyes Cruz Institute of Interdisciplinary Research University of Puerto Rico, Cayey Mariluz Franco-Ortiz…