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: Dissertations
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Splitting the Difference: Exploring the Experiences of Identity and Community Among Biracial and Bisexual People in Nova Scotia Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia April 2011 82 pages Samantha Loppie Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts The term ‘bicultural’ has been gaining acknowledgment in sociological and psycho-social research…
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‘The offspring of infidelity’: Polygenesis and the defense of slavery Emory University 2008 506 pages Publication Number: AAT 3332327 ISBN: 9780549849544 Christopher Luse, Instructional Assistant Professor of History University of Mississippi This dissertation examines an internal debate within the antebellum South over the nature of slavery and race. Focusing on the printed materials of the…
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From the “half-breed” to the “tragic mulatto”: The race integration film in the fifties and the struggle for social equality New York University May 2007 435 pages Publication Number: AAT 3269779 ISBN: 9780549099536 Ryan Daniel DeRosa, Assistant Professor of Film Studies Ohio University A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree…
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Between Race and Nation: The Plains Metis and the Canada-United States Border University of Wisconsin, Madison May 2009 419 pages Publication Number: AAT 3384469 ISBN: 9781109476347 Michel Hogue, Assistant Professor of History Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the…
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Playful ambiguities: racial and literary hybridity in the novels of Brian Castro University of Melbourne Université Toulouse-le Mirail 2010 Marilyne Brun PhD thesis, Arts – School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Université Toulouse-le Mirail. This thesis studies eight of the nine novels of Brian Castro, a contemporary Australian writer born in…
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Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans University of North Texas August 2006 136 pages Ben Melvin Hobratsch Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Masters of Arts, University of North Texas, August 2006 This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans’s free people of color. The…
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The Missing Box: Multiracial Student Identity Development at a Predominately White Institution University of Nebraska, Lincoln May 2011 153 pages Ashley Michelle Loudd A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts The purpose of this study…
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Representation of Coloured Identity in Selected Visual Texts about Westbury, Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand December 2006 132 pages Phyllis D. Dannhauser A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Dramatic Art). In post-apartheid South Africa, Coloured…