Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- 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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True Londoners Are Extinct The New York Times 2012-03-01 Craig Taylor Photo by Mark Neville. Children come to the Somerford Grove Adventure Playground in Tottenham, shown here, after school or on weekends to learn life skills like cooking. “There’s a real sense of adulthood to what the children are doing there,” Neville said. Later this…
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Donna Bailey Nurse: Addressing mixed race in literature CBC Books 2012-02-28 Donna Bailey Nurse Throughout February and March, literary journalist, teacher and author Donna Bailey Nurse will be blogging for CBC Books about black Canadian writers and their important works. In her third post, she explores the complex subject of mixed race and how different…
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Building Multiracial Fortunes: Black Identity, Masculinity, and Authenticity Through the Body of T. Thomas Fortune, 1883-1907 San Diego State University Fall 2011 69 pages Guy Mount A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in History This thesis examines the…
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Inventing the Creole Citizen: Race, Sexuality and the Colonial Order in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue Stony Brook University December 2008 335 pages Yvonne Eileen Fabella A Dissertation Presented The Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History Inventing the Creole Citizen examines the battle over racial hierarchy…
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Inscribing African descendant identity in nineteenth century Cuba: The transculturated literature of Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes Michigan State University 2010 260 pages Publication Number: AAT 3435282 ISBN: 9781124337340 Matthew Joseph Pettway This dissertation explores how Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdés (also known as Plácido) appropriated Hispanic…
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The Octoroon The Georgetown Theatre Company North, South, Race & Class: A Staged Reading Series of 19th century Plays at Grace Church 1041 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Wednesday, 2012-02-29, 19:30 EST (Local Time) The Octoroon (by Dion Boucicault) was one of the biggest hits of mid-19th century American theatre. It is the story of…
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“Freedom By A Judgment”: The Legal History of an Afro-Indian Family Law and History Review Volume 30, Issue 1 (February 2012) pages 173-203 DOI: 10.1017/S0738248011000642 Honor Sachs, Assistant Professor of History Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina Forum: Ab Initio: Law in Early America On May 2, 1771, John Hardaway of Dinwiddie County, Virginia posted…
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Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Third World Newsreel 2012 84 minutes Germany English/German with English Subtitles Dagmar Schultz 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde’s passing, the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist. Throughout the 70s and 80s, Lorde’s incisive writings and speeches defined and inspired the women of color,…
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Searching for a new soul in Harlem Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2012-02-27 Annelise Heinz, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History Stanford University Allyson Hobbs on passing and racial ambiguity during the Harlem Renaissance Harlem in the 1920s is known for its creative outpouring of art, music, and literature.…