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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“Taking Assimilation to Heart” examines marriages between white women and indigenous men in Australia and the United States between 1887 and 1937.
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An analysis of how black women used the mulatta figure to contest racial barriers.
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Sweet Liberty: The Final Days of Slavery in Martinique University of Pennsylvania Press July 2009 312 pages 6 x 9; 7 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8122-4172-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8122-2227-2 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8122-0356-1 Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Associate Professor of History Texas A & M University From its founding, Martinique played an integral role in France’s Atlantic empire.…
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Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory: A Novel University of Texas Press September 2009 198 pages 6 x 9 in.; 1 map ISBN: 978-0-292-71920-0 (hardcover, no dust jacket) ISBN: 978-0-292-72128-9 (paperback) Emma Pérez, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies University of Colorado This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story…
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“Legacies of Race” offers the first examination of Brazilian public opinion to understand racial identities, attitudes, and politics in this racially ambiguous context.
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Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction.
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans Harvard University Press 2009 400 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 19 halftones in 20 p mock insert Hardcover ISBN: 9780674023512 Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Associate Professor in American Studies University of Texas, Austin New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city…
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Does racial hybridity offer a future beyond racial difference? At a time when the idea of a postracial society has entered public discourse, “The Amalgamation Waltz” investigates the practices that conjoined blackness and whiteness in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction Oxford University Press October 2009 216 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780195377361; ISBN10: 0195377362 Caroline Rody, Associate Professor of English University of Virginia In the wake of all that is changing in local and global cultures–in patterns of migration, settlement, labor, and communications–a radical interaction has…
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How the courts dealt with wills bequeathing property or freedom to mixed race children.