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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Shades of Fraternity: Creolization and the Making of Citizenship in French India, 1790–1792 French Historical Studies Volume 31, Number 4 (2008) pages 581-607 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2008-007 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia On October 16, 1790, a group of topas men wrote a petition to the Colonial Assembly at Pondichéry, protesting…
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Historicizing Hybridity and the Politics of Location: Three Early Colonial Indian Narratives Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007) pages 143-155 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082996 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia From White Mughals to Vikram Seth, novels, historical blockbusters and more nuanced anthropological and postcolonial critiques have exposed the…
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Identity Notes Part One: Playing in the Light American University Law Review Volume 45, Number 3 (February 1996) pages 695-720 Adrienne D. Davis, Vice Provost; William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law Washington University in St. Louis What parts do the invention and development of whiteness play in the construction of what is loosely described…
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In the Middle, In Between: Cultural Hybridity, Community Rejection, and the Destabilization of Race in Percival Everett’s “Erasure”, Adam Mansbach’s “Angry Black White Boy”, and Danzy Senna’s “Caucasia” Howard University 2011 84 pages Publication Number: AAT 1495397 ISBN: 9781124728568 Laura R. Perez A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Howard University…
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Biracialism in American Society: A Comparative View American Anthropologist Volume 57, Issue 6 (December 1955) pages 1253–1263 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1955.57.6.02a00150 Ruth Landes Our culture exercises certain values forcefully through our interracial arrangements, principally Negro and white. Comparison with other white-governed societies receiving Negroes reveals the uniqueness in American developments, above all in the operations of Negro…