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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Month: November 2009
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The University of Iowa – Be Remarkable: Courtney Parker University of Iowa 2009-06-08 Po Li Loo Inspired by her multicultural background, a 2008 grad set out to connect campus groups and redefine diversity. Courtney Parker came to The University of Iowa because of the renowned Writers’ Workshop. But in her time here, she discovered other…
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An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’ History Workshop Journal 2002 Volume 53, Number 1 pages 17-42 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/53.1.17 Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton William G. Allen, the child of a free mulatto mother…
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A compilation of the explosive reactions to interracial love and marriage in antebellum America.
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Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of…
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Demystifying the “Tragic Mulatta”: the Biracial Woman as Spectacle Stanford Black Arts Quarterly Stanford University 2.3 (Summer/Spring 1997) Pages 12-14 Stafanie Dunning, Associate Professor and Director of Literature Program Miami University, Ohio “You know redbone girls got a problem.” —Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light ‘Til Dawn “Indigenous like corn, like corn the mestiza is a product…
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The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Carolina Academic Press January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-89089-085-1 Hardback Robert F. Turner, Associate Director at the Center for National Security Law University of Virginia School of Law In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from across the country to carefully examine…