Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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.
about
Category: Slavery
-
The Monticello Mystery-Case Continued William and Mary Quarterly Volume LVIII, Number 4 (October 2001) Reviews of Books Alexander O. Boulton, Professor of History Stevenson University (formerly Villa Julie College) The Jefferson-Hemings Myth: An American Travesty. Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, 2001. Pp. 207.) A President in the Family:…
-
Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South (Book Review) Civil War Book Review Louisiana State University Special Collections Kelly Kennington, 2009-2010 Law & Society Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Legal Studies University of Wisconsin Law School Jones, Bernie D. Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, University of Georgia Press. 216 pages.…
-
Slaves in the Family: Testamentary Freedom and Interracial Deviance 2008 50 pages Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University This Article addresses the deviance of interracial sexuality acknowledged in testamentary documents. The language of wills calls into question the authority of probate and family law by forcing issues of deviance into the public…
-
Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600 University of Texas Press 2005 6 x 9 in. 391 pp., 20 figures, 11 maps, 2 tables ISBN: 978-0-292-71276-8 Alida C. Metcalf, Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History Rice University, Houston, Texas Doña Marina (La Malinche) …Pocahontas …Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged…
-
Transforming Mulatto Identity in Colonial Guatemala and El Salvador; 1670-1720 Transforming Anthropology Volume 12, Issue 1-2 (January 2004) Pages 9 – 20 DOI: 10.1525/tran.2004.12.1-2.9 Paul Lokken, Assistant Professor of Latin American History Bryant University, Smithfield Rhode Island This article examines an important moment in the history of people of African origins in the region now encompassed…