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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An Irish Tradition With an Only-in-America Star The New York Times 2012-03-17 Sabrina Tavernise GREENVILLE, Ohio — For those feeling down about the United States and its place in the world, meet Drew Lovejoy, a 17-year-old from rural Ohio. His background could not be more American. His father is black and Baptist from Georgia and…
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Catholic records of slave baptisms in colonial New Orleans go online New Orleans Times-Picayune 2011-02-01 Bruce Nolan, Beat Reporter On Sunday, the 6th of May, 1798, an enslaved New Orleans woman named only Manon, owned by Mr. LeBlanc, presented her 2-year-old child, Antoine Joseph, at St. Louis Cathedral on the Plaza de Armas to be…
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Rumblings of The Earth: Wifredo Lam, His Work and Words Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1996 23 minutes Denise Byrd Awards San Antonio CINEFEST, 1996 Latin American Studies Association, 1995 The Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam played a leading role in bringing the art of the non-white world to the attention of the…
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‘all my Slaves, whether Negroes, Indians, Mustees, Or Molattoes.’: Towards a Thick Description of ‘Slave Religion’ The American Religious Experience 1999 Patrick Neal Minges The time was in the late 1760’s and the place was Charleston, S.C. A young musician was on his way to a performance with his french horn tucked under his arm.…
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Impostors: EUST-235 Amherst College Spring 2012 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Deborah R. Dizard, Visiting Lecturer in European Studies An interdisciplinary exploration of the causes behind the social, racial, artistic, and political act—and art—of posing, passing, or pretending to be someone else. Blacks passing for whites, Jews passing for gentiles,…
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Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes University of Massachusetts Press December, 2001 256 pages 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-310-0 Susan Sleeper-Smith, Professor of History Michigan State University An innovative study of cultural resilience and resistance in early America A center of the lucrative fur trade throughout the…
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Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada: Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State University of Manitoba Press November 2008 314 pages 6 × 9 Paper, ISBN: 978-0-88755-734-7 Jennifer Reid, Professor of Religion University of Maine, Farmington Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis, Louis Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian…
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Books: Black and white thinking The Christian Century 2012-01-26 Edward P. Antonio, Associate Professor of Theology and Social Theory Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado Brian Bantum. Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2010. 260 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9781602582934. Redeeming Mulatto presents a complex argument about theology and…