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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Category: Religion
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Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires Routledge 2012-02-29 208 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-50429-4 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia This book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India by contrasting Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces. Starting in the sixteenth century,…
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A Mulatto Area Gets Own School The New York Times 1962-09-16 page 73 Hedrick Smith, Special to the New York Times Desegregation Moves Roi Louisiana Caste System BURAS, La., Sept. 13—Freda’s Hi-Lo Bar sits just off State Highway 23 as the road chases the Mississippi River on its last 100 miles from the suburbs of…
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“May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages. 127-144 DOI: 10.1353/dtc.2012.0007 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Prelude In 1856 Reverend Henry…
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Passing free Boston College Magazine Summer 2003 Black in the South, Irish in the North, The Healys Slipped the Bonds of Race in Civil War America James M. O’Toole, Associate Professor of History Boston College When Michael Morris Healy and Eliza Clark entered into a common-law union in 1829, they violated perhaps the most powerful…
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Multiracial Jews Moving Beyond Isolation The Jewish Week 2012-06-12 Julie Wiener, Associate Editor Now 12 percent of the community, racially diverse Jewish households making their way into mainstream — but still less ‘engaged’ than others. When Rabbi/Cantor Angela Buchdahl was growing up — the daughter of a white Jewish father and a Korean-American mother —…
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Black White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Riverhead Press (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2002-01-08 336 pages 5.23 x 8.03in ISBN 9781573229074 Rebecca Walker ALA Best Book for Young Adults The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal together, and in 1969 their daughter, Rebecca, was born. Some saw…