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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Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry first interest survey Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry (LOMA) 2012-12-17 Welcome to LOMA’s first interest survey. Your responses will help us learn more about you, the community we serve, and what we should be doing! For more information, click here. LOMA is a program of Multiracial Americans of…
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Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland Chapter in: Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives Springer 2011 246 pages eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70759-4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70758-7 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2709-4 Edited by: Mary C. Beaudry and James Symonds Chapter Authors: Julia A. King, Associate Professor of Anthropology St. Mary’s College of Maryland Edward E. Chaney In the…
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Staged Bodies: Passing, Performance, and Masquerade in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 69-91 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0062 Margaret Toth, Assistant Professor of English Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York Henry Louis Gates, Jr., claims that “one of the ironies” of the New…
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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of nineteenth-century African-American stature Journal of Population Economics Volume 24, Issue 4 (October 2011) pages 1471-1491 DOI: 10.1007/s00148-010-0324-x Scott Alan Carson, Professor of Economics The University of Texas of the Permian Basin Nineteenth-century mulattos were taller than their darker-colored African-American counterparts. However, traditional explanations that attribute the…
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Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America Harvard University Press April 2013 250 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780674045835 François Weil, Chancellor and Professor of History; former president of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Universities of Paris The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the…