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 Planter’s Fictions: Identity, Intimacy, and the Negotiations of Power in Colonial Jamaica University of Victoria, Canada 2010 127 pages Meleisa Ono-George A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Art In the Department of History By the latter quarter of the eighteenth century, as the movement against…
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Blacks and Native Americans have deep ties Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-11-18 Manny Otiko, Our Weekly Contributor November is Native Heritage month There is an old joke in the Black community about women attributing long hair to having “Indian blood” in their family. But like all jokes, there is an…
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The Seminole Freedmen: A History University of Oklahoma Press 2007 480 pages 6″ x 9″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806138657 Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian University of California, Los Angeles Captures the distinct identity and history of the Seminole maroons Popularly known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique…
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The Enigma Of Jefferson: Mind and Body In Conflict The New York Times 1998-11-07 Dinitia Smith For contemporary historians, Thomas Jefferson has always been an enigma, and the new DNA evidence that he fathered at least one child by his young slave Sally Hemings simply deep ens the mystery of the man. On the one…
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Ellen Craft’s Radical Techniques of Subversion e-misférica Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics Issue 5.2: Race and its Others (December 2008) 16 pages Uri McMillan, Assistant Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles Image by Bruce Yonemoto This paper considers the antebellum performance(s) of fugitive slave Ellen Craft. Craft, an African-American female slave from…
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Black Mexico: Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Race and Nation Brown University May 2009 268 pages Marisela Jiménez Ramos A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. On January 31, 2006, the Associated Press reported that while remodeling…
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A Free Man of Color [Theater Review] The Faster Times 2010-11-18 Johnathon Mandell Opening Date: 2010-11-18 Closing Date: 2011-01-09 Written by John Guare Directed by George C. Wolfe As “A Free Man of Color” begins, its hero, an ex-slave, is a bewigged, bejeweled fop who is the wealthiest and most sexually desirable man in New…
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The Quadroon Ball on stage one week only Oct. 13-17 [2010] Lone Star College The Woodlands, Texas 2010-09-22 Lone Star College-CyFair Drama Department presents Damon Wright’s play “The Quadroon Ball” on stage Oct. 13 through Oct. 17 [2010]. “The Quadroon Ball” is a moving drama taking place in New Orleans just prior to the Civil…