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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Segregation of the Free People of Color and the Construction of Race in Antebellum New Orleans Southeastern Geographer Volume 48, Number 1, May 2008 pages 19-37 E-ISSN: 1549-6929 Print ISSN: 0038-366X DOI: 10.1353/sgo.0.0010 Amy R. Sumpter, Instructor of Geography Georgia College and State University Louisiana and the city of New Orleans have a complicated colonial…
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The mulatta, the bishop, and dances in the Cathedral: race, music, and power relations in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico Black Music Research Journal Volume 26, Number 2 (Fall, 2006) pages 137-164 Noel Allende-Goitía, Professor of Music Universidad Interamericano de Puerto Rico, San Germán At the beginning of the twentieth century, Cayetano Coll y Toste, a Puerto…
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The true story of a slave who became the wealthiest black woman in the South
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Coloring History and Mixing Race in Levina Urbino’s ‘Sunshine in the Palace and Cottage’ and Louise Heaven’s ‘In Bonds’ Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 24, Number 2 (2007) E-ISSN: 1534-0643, Print ISSN: 0748-4321 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2007.0018 Eric Gardner, Professor of English Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan While the figure of the “tragic mulatta”…
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Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free African Cherokees from the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma’s entry into…
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These essays consider a wide range of texts and moments from colonial times to the present that raise significant questions about the political motivations inherent in the origins and maintenance of identity categories and boundaries.