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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Narrative Order, Racial Hierarchy, and “White” Discourse in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Along This Way MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2011 page 37-62 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2011.0041 Masami Sugimori, Instructor of English University of South Alabama African Americans became increasingly mobile during the early twentieth…
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Black & White: Search for roots uncovers forgotten family secret National Post Toronto, Canada 2012-02-17 Sarah Boesveld, General Assignment Writer About 20 years ago, David Dossett watched his grandfather politely shut down a woman who called to say she was a relative and that their family had come to Canada from Jamaica and that they…
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Science of desire: Race and representations of the Haitian revolution in the Atlantic world, 1790-1865 University of Notre Dame July 2008 489 pages Publication Number: AAT 3436234 ISBN: 9781124353197 Marlene Leydy Daut, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of…
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Categorization of racial/ethnic identity for racialized and marginalized biracials in the mainland United States California State University, Sacramento Spring 2009 169 pages Estrella Valdez THESIS Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in SPECIAL MAJOR (Ethnic Studies) There is no singular agreed-upon understanding of what it means to…
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Nharas and Morenas Horras: A Luso-African Model for the Social History of the Spanish Caribbean, c. 1570-1640 Journal of Early Modern History Volume 14, Issue 1 (2010) pages 119-150 DOI: 10.1163/138537810X12632734397061 David Wheat, Assistant Professor of History Michigan State University Drawing on little-used archival materials held in Seville’s Archive of the Indies and ecclesiastical records from…
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City’s black founding father Decator Daily Decatur, Alabama 2010-04-19 Deangelo McDaniel, Staff Writer Minister, historian reconstructing life of ex-slave who became successful farmer First in a two-part series The Rev. Wylheme Ragland would like to spend one day with Robert Murphy. So would local historian Peggy Allen Towns. “Just one day,” Ragland said emphatically. “Just…
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“Our Ancestors came from many Bloods”. Gendered Narrations of a Hybrid Nation Lusotopie Volume 12, Issue 1 (2005) pages 217-232 DOI: 10.1163/176830805774719728 Isabel P.B. Fêo Rodrigues, Professor of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Narratives of mixed ancestry in Cape Verde use gender as common denominator in the weaving of a Creole nation. These narratives may…