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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Representations of the Black Body in Mexican Visual Art: Evidence of an African Historical Presence or a Cultural Myth? Journal of Black Studies Volume 39, Number 5 (May 2009) pages 761-785 DOI: 10.1177/0021934707301474 Wendy E. Phillips, Photographer Atlanta, GA Although Africans have been present in Mexico since the time of the Afro-Atlantic slave trade, the…
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Genealogy of the formation of race and gender hierarchies in the U.S.
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An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers.
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Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique University of Pennsylvania Press July 2009 312 pages 6 x 9; 7 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4172-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8122-2227-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0356-1 Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Associate Professor of History Texas A & M University From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France’s Atlantic empire.…
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How the courts dealt with wills bequeathing property or freedom to mixed race children.