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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Racial Ideologies, Racial-Group Boundaries, and Racial Identity in Veracruz, Mexico Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 5, Number 3 (November 2010) pages 273-299 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2010.513829 Recent scholarly interest in the populations of African descent in Latin America has contributed to a growing body of literature. Although a number of studies have explored the issue of blackness…
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The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in America [Review: Eubanks] The Washington Independent Review of Books 2011-07-04 W. Ralph Eubanks, Director of Publishing at the Library of Congress Author of Ever Is a Long Time and The House at the End of the Road Julie Winch, The Clamorgans: One Family’s History of Race in…
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Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions Harvard University Press ISBN 9780674035911 February 2010 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 21 halftones, 2 maps Jane G. Landers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History Vanderbilt University 2011 Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group…
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Pigmentocracy Freedom’s Story: Teaching African American Literature and History National Humanities Center April 2010 Trudier Harris, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, Emerita University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Definition and Background In the past couple of decades, the word pigmentocracy has come into common usage to refer to the distinctions that people of African…
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Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Duke University Press 2004 360 pages 5 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3399-9 Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists…
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D’Eichthal and Urbain’s Lettres sur la race noire et la race blanche: Race, Gender, and Reconciliation after Slave Emancipation Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 240-258 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Naomi J. Andrews, Assistant Professor of History Santa Clara University This article is a close reading of Gustave…
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Who Belongs to Whom?: Codes, Property, and Ownership in Madame Charles Reybaud’s “Les Épaves” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Volume 39, Numbers 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2011) pages 229-239 E-ISSN: 1536-0172 Print ISSN: 0146-7891 Molly Krueger Enz, Assistant Professor of French South Dakota State University French Romantic writer Madame Charles Reybaud explores the coupling of gender and…