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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Indigenous Studies (INST) 370/History (HIST) 370: The Métis (Revision 2) Athabasca University Athabasca, Alberta, Canada INST 370 traces the historical development of Canada’s Métis from the period of the fur trade to the present. It includes discussion and debates about the origins of Métis nationalism, the validity of Métis land claims, and the character of…
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Irrevocable Ties and Forgotten Ancestry: The Legacy of Colonial Intermarriage for Descendents of Mixed Ancestry University of British Columbia, Vancouver April 2008 56 pages Kim S. Dertien A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Anthropology) The identities of mixed Aboriginal…
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Novel focuses on region’s multi-ethnic heritage The Coalfield Progress Post Norton, Virginia 2012-07-06 Katie Dunn, Staff Reporter BIG STONE GAP — America is often described as a melting pot, a nation where different ethnicities and cultures have assimilated into a cohesive union. In her recently published novel, Washed in the Blood, author Lisa Alther, a…
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Constructing Dialogue, Constructing Identites: Mixed Heritage Identity Construction in “Half and Half” Georgetown University 2009-04-16 55 pages Anissa Jane Sorokin A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Language and Communication This…
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HIST 387 004: Inventing the Nation in Latin America George Mason University Spring 2012 Matt Karush, Associate Professor of History Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Latin Americans have struggled to define themselves and their nations. This quest for identity has involved governments, intellectuals, and artists, but also ordinary men and women. And the results…
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Blackness in Argentina: Jazz, Tango and Race Before Perón* Past and Present Volume 216, Issue 1 (August 2012) pages 215-245 DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gts008 Matthew B. Karush, Associate Professor of History George Mason University On the question of race and nation, the dominant Latin American paradigm has never applied to Argentina. In Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere, twentieth-century…
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Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, “Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians” examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.