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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Mulatto: Less than Human Indian Country Today 2012-01-16 Julianne Jennings Arizona State University Race is not simply about the physical description of human variation. Since its origin in Western science in the eighteenth century, race has been used both to classify and rank human beings according to inferior and superior types. Although race as a…
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The Evolution of ‘Portuguese’ Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century The Journal of African History Volume 40, Issue 2 (1999) pages 173-191 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, Portugal established a trading presence along the…
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The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World Cambridge University Press March 2011 278 pages 8 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN:9780521192866 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut José da Silva Horta Universidade de Lisboa This book traces the history of…
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A Critique of Pure Pluralism Chapter in: Reconstructing American Literary History Harvard University Press 1986 386 pages ISBN-10: 1583484167; ISBN-13: 978-1583484166 Edited by: Sacvan Bercovitch, Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature Harvard University pages 250-279 Chapter Author: Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies;…
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Edward W. Blyden, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the ‘Color Complex’ The Journal of Modern African Studies Volume 30, Number 4 (December, 1992) pages 669-684 DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X00011101 Michael J. C. Echeruo, William Safire Professor in Modern Letters English Department Syracuse University This article is an attempt to present (and thereby to come to terms…