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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Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century Cambridge University Press January 2009 348 pages 228 x 152 mm; 0.6kg Hardback ISBN: 9780521884655 Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Professor of Modern History Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in…
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The Rise of a New Consciousness: Early Euro-African Voices of Dissent in Colonial Angola Journal of Portuguese History Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 2007 15 pages ISSN: 1645-6432 Jacopo Corrado Events such as the 1820 Liberal Revolution in Portugal and the 1822 declaration of independence in Brazil appeared to the Creole elite based in the…
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The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism, 1870–1920 Cambria Press 2008-09-08 340 pages ISBN: 9781604975291 Jacopo Corrado This book is about Angolan literature and culture. It investigates a segment of Angolan history and literature, with which even Portuguese-speaking readers are generally not familiar. Its main purpose is to define the features and the…
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The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context Cambria Press 2010-08-08 360 pages ISBN: 9781604977042 Antonio Olliz-Boyd, Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature Temple University Just beneath the surface of most scholars’ research on the ethno-racial composition of Spanish-speaking America lies a definitive connection between the African Diaspora and the Latin American…
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The melungeons: A mystery people of east Tennessee Ethnos Volume 29, Issue 1-2 (1964) pages 43-48 DOI: 10.1080/00141844.1964.9980946 Paul G. Brewster Cookeville, Tennessee, USA The United States has long been called, and with some justification, “the melting-pot of nations” and the intermarriage of members of different races is a commonplace. The children born to such…
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I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans University of New Orleans 2009-05-15 62 pages Nikki Dugar A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History…