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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Hybridity in Cooper, Mitchell and Randall: Erasures, Rewritings, and American Historical Mythology McGill University, Montreal Department of English August, 2004 86 pages Marie Thormodsgard Submitted in partial fulfillment for a Masters degree in English This thesis starts with an overview of the historical record tied to the birth of a new nation studied by Alexis…
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Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century [Book Review] H-Africa H-Net Reviews March 2004 Eric S. Ross, Coordinator, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco George Brooks’s Eurafricans in Western Africa is the sequel to his Landlords and Strangers (1993).…
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The Octoroon: Early History of the Drama of Miscegenation The Journal of Negro Education Volume 20, Number 4 (Autumn, 1951) pages 547-557 Sidney Kaplan, Instructor In English University of Massachusetts From the moment of its birth the American democracy has appeared to some of its best champions as the perfect subject for Aristotelian tragedy. Could…
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Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro.
The Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection is a collection of 19th-century anti-slavery pamphlets received in 1923 from the executors of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), the distinguished Liberal Member of Parliament for Sheffield.
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Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” Southern Spaces An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections 2007-08-28 Ed Piacentino, Professor of English High Point University, High Point, North Carolina This essay examines Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto” (1837), a short story acknowledged as the…
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Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother to a Movement Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-09-20 John Odell Rachel’s Children I can’t help but think of the Old Testament Abraham when I hear stories about Newt Knight. Both men sired children by a wife and a slave. In Newt’s case it was Serena and…
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Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans’ Three-Caste Society, 1791-1812 University of Texas, Austin May 2007 219 pages Kenneth Randolph Aslakson, Assistant Professor of History Union College, Schenectady, New York Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment…
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Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present Routledge: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 2010-10-21 204 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-39808-4 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto This study considers cultural representations of “brown” people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the…