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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Reacting to the rising numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) people in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon government of Spain attempted to categorize and control its colonial subjects through increasing social regulation of their bodies and the spaces they inhabited.
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In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, an “infernal motley crew” of cotton kings, decadent river workers, immigrants, and slaves. Miller’s dramatic trial offers an eye into the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing.
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Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own University of Texas Press April 2011 292 pages 6 x 9 in., 6 b&w photos Edited by: AnaLouise Keating, Professor of Women’s Studies Texas Woman’s University Gloria González-López, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Faculty Associate Center for Mexican American Studies Center for Women’s and Gender…
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Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon’s, and “Black Skin, White Masks” represents some of his most important work.
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A Free Man of Color Grove/Atlantic, Inc. October 2011 112 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4566-6 John Guare John Guare’s new play is astonishing, raucous, and panoramic. A Free Man of Color is set in boisterous New Orleans prior to the historic Louisiana Purchase. Before law and order took hold and class,…
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The Memory of Love Grove/Atlantic, Inc. January 2011 464 pages Cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1965-0 Paperback ISBN 13: 978-0-8021-4568-0 Aminatta Forna Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction An Essence Book Club Pick From the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones…
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Between black and miscegenated population groups: sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos Volume 18, Number 2 (April/June 2011) 29 pages DOI: 10.1590/S0104-59702011000200007 Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, PhD candidate Graduate Program on History of the Sciences and Health Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Marcos Chor…