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 Cuneys: A Southern Family in White and Black Texas Tech University August 2000 289 pages Douglas Hales, Professor of History Temple College, Temple, Texas A Dissertation in History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial FulfiUment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy [Note from Steven F.…
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The Anti-Miscegenation History of the American Southwest, 1837 To 1970: Transforming Racial Ideology into Law Cultural Dynamics Volume 20, Number 3 (November 2008) pages 279-318 DOI: 10.1177/0921374008096312 Martha Menchaca, Professor of Anthropology University of Texas at Austin This article proposes that a historical analysis of court cases and state statutes can be used to illustrate…
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The Author Speaks: Interview With Daniel J. Sharfstein AARP Bulletin American Association of Retired Persons 2011-02-17 Julia M. Klein His powerful new book examines how three American families became white Before Daniel J. Sharfstein’s senior year at Harvard, he spent the summer of 1993 in South Africa as a volunteer for a voter education project.…
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The Invisible Line Between Black and White Smithsonian.com 2011-02-18 T. A. Frail Vanderbilt professor Daniel Sharfstein discusses the history of the imprecise definition of race in America For much of their history, Americans dealt with racial differences by drawing a strict line between white people and black people. But Daniel J. Sharfstein, an associate professor…
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Brooklyn Museum Acquires Eighteenth-Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Dominica Mixed Race Colonial Elite The Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052 T(718) 638-5000, F(718) 501-6134 January 2011 Agostino Brunias (Italian, ca. 1730-1796), Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape, ca. 1764-1796, Oil on canvas, 2010.59, Gift of Mrs.…
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Shades of White The New York Times 2011-02-25 Raymond Arsenault, Visiting Scholar, Florida State University Study Center in London and John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, University of South Florida Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. 415 pp.…
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 4, Spring 2011 pages 661-663 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 Mary Niall Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New Orleans University Shirley Elizabeth Thompson. Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans.…
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Civil War Fires Up Literary Shootout The New York Times 2009-07-29 Michael Cieply LOS ANGELES — History repeats itself. But sometimes it needs a little polishing up from Hollywood. Over the last few weeks, the writers of a pair of Civil War-era histories about the anti-Confederate inhabitants of Jones County, Miss., have been trading barbs…
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A conversation with Daniel J. Sharfstein (Author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White) The Penguin Press January 2011 Lauren Hodapp, Senior Publicist The Penguin Press Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey…
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Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family The New World Africa Press 2006-03-03 252 pages 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ISBN-10: 0976876124; ISBN-13: 978-0976876120 Joseph E. Holloway, Professor of Pan African Studies California State University, Northridge Historical novel, which traces the history of the Hadnot family from Gloucester, England in 1585…