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 group boundaries and identities: People of ‘mixed‐race’ in slavery across the Americas Slavery & Abolition Volume 15, Issue 3 (1994) pages 17-37 DOI: 10.1080/01440399408575137 Stephen Small, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of California, Berkeley One of the fundamental developments to arise as a result of the settling of the Americas by Europeans…
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The Wind Done Gone Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2001 224 pages Trim Size: 5.50 x 8.25 ISBN-13/EAN: 9780618219063 ISBN-10: 0618219064 Alice Randall In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Gone With the Wind, a work that more than any…
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The arrival of Europeans in the Caribbean brought about irreversible demographic change. Decimated by defeat and disease, ‘peaceful’ Arawaks and ‘warlike’ Caribs alike ceased to exist as an identifiable ethnic group, their gene pool dissolving into that of the newcomers, where it died away or remained un-investigated.
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(In) between identities: Representations of the island and the mulatto in nineteenth-century French fiction University of Wisconsin, Madison 2005 205 pages Publication Number: AAT 3186126 ISBN: 9780542274718 Molly Krueger Enz, Assistant Professor of French South Dakota State University A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (French)…
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The Hudson River School via Cincinnati Chronogram: Arts, Culture, Spirit Kingston, New York 2011-05-28 Sparrow “History can be blind,” observes Joseph D. Ketner II, curator of “Robert S. Duncanson: ‘the spiritual striving of the freedmen’s sons,’” an exhibition at the Thomas Cole National Historical Site in Catskill. Duncanson (1821-1872) was an African-American landscape painter, once…
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Researcher presents new views on 18th century mixed races and their families William & Mary: News & Events 2011-06-15 Andrea Davis Daniel Livesay, NEH postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary, presented a paper at the University of Texas in February that discussed the mixed children…
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 98, Issue 1 (2011) Pages 154-155 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar004 Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. By Annette Gordon-Reed. (New York: Norton, 2008. 802 pp. Cloth, ISBN 978-0-393-06477-3. Paper, ISBN 978-0-393-33776-1.)…
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy University of Virginia Press 1998 305 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8139-1833-4 Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor of History Harvard University When Annette Gordon-Reed’s groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas…
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Passing for Black: Sermon Unitarian Church of Norfolk Norfolk, Virginia 2010-08-29 Dr. Walter Skip Earl OPENING WORDS Forty-seven years ago yesterday, on August 28, 1963, before a huge crowd of African and other Americans gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: In a sense, we’ve come to our nation’s…