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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The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism, 1870–1920 Cambria Press 2008-09-08 340 pages ISBN: 9781604975291 Jacopo Corrado This book is about Angolan literature and culture. It investigates a segment of Angolan history and literature, with which even Portuguese-speaking readers are generally not familiar. Its main purpose is to define the features and the…
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The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context Cambria Press 2010-08-08 360 pages ISBN: 9781604977042 Antonio Olliz-Boyd, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature Temple University Just beneath the surface of most scholars’ research on the ethno-racial composition of Spanish-speaking America lies a definitive connection between the African Diaspora and the Latin American…
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Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark as a Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative Sargasso: Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture Volume I (2009-2010) pages 79-92 Ania Spyra, Assistant Professor of English Butler University “pretty useful mask that white one.” —Jean Rhys, Voyage In the Dark Images of masks and masking surface repeatedly in Jean Rhys’s…
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The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory [Review: Zack] American Nineteenth Century History Volume 11, Issue 2 (2010) pages 269-270 DOI: 10.1080/14664658.2010.481885 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory Tavia Nyong’o Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 Pp. 230. ISBNs 978…
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Race, Blood, and What the Alligator Knows: A Review of What Blood Won’t Tell Southern California Law Review Volume 83, Number 3 (March 2010) pages 425-440 Jason A. Gillmer, Associate Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan School of Law From the opening pages of Ariela J. Gross’s What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on…
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The Origins of the Afrikaners and their Language, 1652-1720: A Study in Miscegenation and Creole Race & Class Volume 15, Number 4 (April 1974) pages 461-495 DOI: 10.1177/030639687401500404 Ken Jordaan We are a bastard people with a bastard language. Ours is a bastard nature. That is good and fine. And like all bastards, uncertain of…
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How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon Verso Books October 2008 Hardback, 240 pages Paperback, 272 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781844672752 Paperback ISBN: 9781844674343 David R. Roediger, Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History University of Kansas An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by…